Quran and Medicine

Quran and Medicine

The Efficacy of Published Articles of Scholars in the Field of “Quran & Health” in Social Networks: An Altmetrics Study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Medical Library and Information Science Department, Bushehr
Abstract
Aims: The current study aimed to investigate the efficacy of published articles of scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” in Scopus and Web of Science during 2009-2018.
Methods: This research was an applied descriptive-analytical study that was conducted as a scientometric study. The population included all the Iranian scholars’ papers in the field of “Quran & Health” during 2009-2018 in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Data were processed by altmetrics bookmarklet and analyzed with Excel.
Findings: Of total articles (331 articles), some articles had a digital object identifier (DOI). Among them, the low percentage had an altmetrics score. Mendeley and twitter had a greatest proportion in mentioning Iranian scholars’ papers. The highest number of sharing these articles belonged to United States and England. Medicine and Dentistry had a highest number of Mendeley’s references.
Conclusion: The findings indicated that the low percentage of the Iranian articles had the digital object identifier. Therefore, it can be suggested that Iranian scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” have to pay more attention in publish their findings in the journal which allocate doi to their papers.
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