Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh

TL;DR: A snapshot of how the publishing landscape has evolved in the first six months of 2020 in response to this pandemic is provided and the risks associated with the speed of publications are discussed.

TL;DR: ErErfanmanesh, M., Abrizah, A., and Karim, N. as discussed by the authors developed and validated the Information Seeking Anxiety Scale, which could be employed in efforts to measure information seeking anxiety among library users.

TL;DR: Investigation of the contribution of Iranian researchers in predatory open-access journals in 2014 revealed this country as having the second largest contributor after India, and institutions with the highest share of publication in predatory journals are among the most reputable and well-known universities of the country.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relationship of a country's scientific performance or publication success with both its journals' quantity and quality, and find that publication success (total publications and total citations) of 102 countries are strongly correlated with quantity (number of indexed journals and number of documents published in indexed journals) and quality (citations per paper, SJR, h-index, CiteScore and SNIP) indicators of country's journals.

TL;DR: The most productive informetrics researchers of all time were analysed in terms of productivity, citation impact, and co-authorship and the US does not seem to be good at producing highly productive researchers but is successful at producing high impact researchers.