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Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?

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Title Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?
Author(s) Ebrahim, Nader Ale ; Farhadi, Hadi ; Salehi, Hadi ; Yunus, Melor Md ; Chadegani, Arezoo Aghaei ; Farhadi, Maryam ; Fooladi, Masood
Imprint 04 Jun 2013. - 5 p.
Note Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables
Subject category Information Transfer and Management
Abstract h-index retrieved by citation indexes (Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science) is used to measure the scientific performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily available and may be used for performance measures of scientists, and for recruitment decisions. The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between the outputs and results from these three citation databases namely Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science based upon the h-index of a group of highly cited researchers (Nobel Prize winner scientist). The purposive sampling method was adopted to collect the required data. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the h-index between three citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science; the Google scholar h-index was more than the h-index in two other databases. It was also concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between h-indices based on Google scholar and Scopus. The citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science may be useful for evaluating h-index of scientists but they have some limitations as well.

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Bibliometrics


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Bibliometrics, citation analysis, or author/lab/journal impact, is a method aimed at determining the importance and influence of (typically peer-reviewed) journals, journal articles and their authors. Several techniques have been developed and there is active discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of each. Below you will find articles discussing these techniques and the controversies, as well as the tools most often used to gather and analyze the data.

The analysis can be performed on authors, journals or institutions, but the tools and methods can differ depending on which category is chosen. Here are some quick tip and caveats for each.
  • Journals - The primary tool for bibliometrics on journals is Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The calculations are done yearly by Thomson and presented through JCR. The key measure in JCR is the Impact Factor, though there is on-going debate over the true accuracy and value of this measure. Some of the articles below touch on this debate.
  • Authors - The primary tool available to NOAA for bibliometrics on authors is Web of Science. Important factors to consider while analyzing citations to authors are variations and inaccuracies in the formats of names that introduce ambiguity and self-citations. Name variations can be addressed by truncating names (using * at the end of a name) to capture all variations. Then, one can look at each cited reference to determine if the paper is actually by the target author. There are now tools to remove self-citations in a cited reference list. Tools such as ResearcherID are also aimed at addressing the issue of ambiguous citations. Another emerging means of measuring author impact is the Hirsch index or h-index. Some of the tools below assist with calculating and interpreting the h-index. Similar to the h-index, Egghe index or g-index also measures author's impact but is more complicated to calculate.
  • Institutions - The primary tool available to NOAA for bibliometrics on institutions is Web of Science. Important factors to consider while analyzing citations to institutions are variations in the formats. NOAA and its various offices, for instance, have been cited using thousands of variations. Zip code can be used to capture all variations in a given lab's name, but that may still include inappropriate or exclude appropriate citations. Also, if performing analysis on institutions using personal authors, make sure to count papers co-authored by colleagues in the same lab once.

Bibliometrics Tools

NOAA logo indicating licensed resourceWeb of Science (Science Citation Index) 1965 -
Bibliometric features in Web of Science include cited reference searching as well as citation analysis tools that will work on the article or author level. Please see the user education page for Web of Science training resources.

Small NOAA logoJournal Citation Reports (Science Edition) 2006 -
Journal Citation Reports (Science Edition) aggregates and tabulates citation and article counts as indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. It contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology allowing one to evaluate and compare journals. Help includes Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely as well as a table of contents for more specific questions. Pre-recorded training sessions are also available.
Highly Cited Research
Presents analysis of Web of Science data to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.
Academic Ranking of World Universities
Also known as the Shanghai ranking, it was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and is now updated annually.
Google Scholar
The search results list in Google Scholar now links to documents citing and articles related to a single article. The total number of citing documents may often be higher than results in Web of Science because it includes documents not indexed in Web of Science, but it may also be duplicative or otherwise less authoritative. Also, the Scholar H-Index Calculator, is a Firefox add-on that will automatically display citation indices (h-index, etc.). The advanced mode allows manual selection of papers, editing of self citations and author count values and much more. If using Zotero, with Firefox, Zotero Scholar Citations, is a Firefox/Zotero add-on for auto-fetching the number of citations from Google Scholar.

SCImago
Analysis of journal ranking using data from the Scopus database and the Google PageRank algorithm
SNIP and SJR
More analysis using information from the Scopus database.
Eigenfactor
Analysis of journal ranking that uses data from Thomson databases (Web of Science) and algorithms similar to the Google PageRank algorithm. This analysis is also presented in a visualization at well-formed.eigenfactor.org
Publish or Perish
Free downloadable software that performs citation analysis on Google Scholar results.
ResearcherID
A Thomson tool to help disambiguate names to facilitate more accurate tracking of researchers' and institutions' publications.
BIBEXCEL
Assist a user in analyzing bibliographic data, or any data of a textual nature formatted in a similar manner, by generating data files that can be imported to Excel, or any program that takes tabbed data records, for further processing.
Science of Science (Sci2) Tool
A modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.
altmetrics
A collection of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.

Bibliometrics Articles

Small NOAA logo Abbott, Allison, et al. 2010. "Metrics: Do metrics matter?." Nature v.465: 860-862.
Butler, Declan. 2008. "Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market." Nature v.451: 6.
Garfield, Eugene. 2005. "The Agony and the Ecstasy -- The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor". (pdf)
Small NOAA logo Garfield, Eugene. 1972. "Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation." Science v.178 no.4060 pp.471-479.
Small NOAA logo Hirsch, J.E. 2005. "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output." Proc. of the Nat. Acad. of Sciences v.102 no.46, pp.16569-16572.
Inter-Research. "ESEP Theme Section: The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance". Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. v.8 no.1, 2008.
Jasco, Peter. 2009. "Newswire Analysis: Google Scholar's Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems". Library Journal. 09/24/2009
Small NOAA logo Kai, Simonds. 2008 "The Misused Impact Factor." Science v.322 no.5899 p.165.
Small NOAA logo Lane, Julie. 2010. "Let's make metrics more scientific." Nature v.464 pp.488-489.
Monastersky, Richard. 2005. "Impact factors run into competition." The Chronicle of Higher Education v.52: A17. (requires subscription)
Monastersky, Richard. 2005. "The number that's devouring science." The Chronicle of Higher Education v.52: A12. (requires subscription)
Nature Publishing Group. "Science metrics". An online special spotlight including news, features and interactive graphics.
OpCit Project. "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies."
Thomson Reuters. Using Bibliometrics: A Guide to Evaluating Research Performance with Citation Data - a white paper. (pdf)
NOAA logo indicating licensed resource Van Noorden, Richard. 2010. "Metrics: A profusion of measures." Nature v.465: 864-866.


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Nader Ale Ebrahim

Location:
Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Profession:
Technology Management, Virtual Teams, Research Tools
Discipline:
Engineering
Specialization:
Virtual R&D Teams, Bibliometrics & Research Tools




Nader Ale Ebrahim has Technology Management PhD degree from the Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the mechanical engineering from University of Tehran with distinguished honors, as well as more than 17 years experience in the establishing R&D department in different companies, project director and project coordinator and Knowledge based system implemented in R&D department. His current research interests are focused on managing virtual new product development teams in SMEs R&D centers. His papers/articles have presented in the several Journals and conferences.


Interests
Technology Management,
Virtual R&D teams,
Virtual Teams,
Stage-Gate,
Global Virtual Teams,
Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development,
R&D Management,
Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs),
Industrial Engineering,
New Product Development,
Collaborative systems,
Electronic-Collaboration,
Collaboration Technology,
Concurrent Engineerin

Projects
No information provided

Universiy ofi Malaya
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Industrial Engineering - Technology Management

Faculty of Engineering ,University of Tehran
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Energy Conversion)
Awards: Top Student 1995
Title of Master’s Degree thesis “Heat transfer taking into consideration the effects of distillation on tube transformers with flat blades”

Faculty of Engineering ,University of Tehran
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Fluids & Heat Transfer)
Awards: Top Student 1992
Title of Bachelor’s Degree thesis “Automobile radiator and its role in cooling the automobile”


Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?
Masood Fooladi , Hadi Salehi , Melor Md Yunus , Maryam Farhadi , Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani , Hadi Farhadi , Nader Ale Ebrahim
Asian Social Science
Volume 9 Issue 5 pages 176-182  Year 2013

http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n5p176


A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani , Hadi Salehi , Melor Md Yunus , Hadi Farhadi , Masood Fooladi , Maryam Farhadi , Nader Ale Ebrahim
Asian Social Science
Volume 9 Issue 5 pages 18-26  Year 2013

http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n5p18


Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs
Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed , Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid , M A Wazed , Zahari Taha
Advanced Materials Research
Volume 433-440 pages 1653-1659  Year 2012

http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.1653


Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams
Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim Taha, Zahari
American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Volume 5 Issue 1 pages 9-14  Year 2012

http://dx.doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2012.9.14


Effective virtual teams for new product development
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Scientific Research and Essays
Volume 7 Issue 21 pages 1971-1985  Year 2012

http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/SRE10.1005


The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs
Nader Ale Ebrahim , Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid , Shamsuddin Ahmed , Zahari Taha
Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Volume 10 Issue 2 pages 109-114  Year 2011

http://dx.doi.org/10.7232/iems.2011.10.2.109



Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, IPPP, University of Malaya Jalan Lembah Pantai Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50603 Malaysia
Research Fellow
2013 to Present. This is my current job.


Second prize of the EPD 2010 challenge 2010
Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya | Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia
Engineering Postgraduate Day (EPD) 2010: 3 MinutePhD Competition.

Selected Researcher 2005
Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Deputy Directorate for Research | Tehran-Iran
10 December 2005: Given recognition as selected researcher (attained second position) at the 2005 Selected Researchers Commemoration Ceremony conducted by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Deputy Directorate for Research, State Scientific Research Center; IRIB, Int’l Conference Center, Tehran, Iran

Master’s Top Student 1995
University of Tehran | Tehran-Iran
1995: Attained the first standing among the graduates of Master’s Degree curriculum in Mechanical Engineering ,Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Bachelor’s Top Student 1992
University of Tehran | Tehran-Iran
1992: Attained the first standing among the graduates of Bachelor’s Degree curriculum in Mechanical Engineering; Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran


An enthusiastic, adaptive and fast-learning person with a broad and acute interest in the discovery of new innovative technology management, I particularly enjoy collaborating with scientists to develop new skills and solve new challenges.


Vice-Chairman
The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines
Tehran - Iran
04/03 to 04/07
I and some of my colleagues become founding father of The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines (RDS) which has more than 1400 companies as members from different industrial sectors. RDS with its members is the holder of around 20% of Iran’s GDP.
Major duties of the RDS are as follows:

1. Identification of the research capabilities and capacities of the research and development units of the industrial centers and helping the members to benefit from their research potential abilities
2. Coordination among research & development units in order to compile executive approaches in order to choose suitable technology, compilation and definition of the executive principles needed for transfer of technology based on industrial requirements of the society, cooperation, and seeking for improved approaches needed for attraction and naturalization of the transferred technologies.

The society also aims at nurturing the R&D activities of its member companies by offering state-of-the-art training services by organizing industry-specific courses, industrial visits, and holding annual conferences and workshops.

Member of the scientific and organizing committees of the conferences held by the society.

Engineering Deputy
Iran Khodro Diesel Co.
Tehran - Iran
01/03 to 08/06
IKD is the leader and a world class commercial vehicle manufacturer in the Middle East; under the license of Mercedes Benz Germany. The company's total annual turn-over reaches to $1.1bn.

I was in charge of coordinating and leading new projects in Iran Khodro Diesel. Here is a list of Some of the projects that I was involved when I worked at IKD:


• Project Coordinator of License Agreement Project between IKD and Daimler Chrysler for truck technology transfer which was led to produce knowledge based prototyping and mass production of new Daimler Chrysler’s products(Actros 3331, Actros 1844, Axor 2628, Axor 1935, Axor 3335)
• Project director of "Conversion of OM457 Diesel Engine to a CNG Engine" with cooperation of Spanish designer & developer company IDIADA.
• Production of new CNG buses
• Project manager of selection, sampling, testing and installation of bus air conditioner system.
• Directed projects relating to sampling and mass production of Chorus CNG minibus with converted Hyundai engine
• Directed projects relating to facility layout planning of truck production hall in order to increase quality and quantity of production
• Projects director of increase bus production capacity and commissioning of SC457 and Mega-trans bus production line
• Cooperated in the project for minimizing transportation, scraps as well as organization of company warehouses and containers.
• Directed projects relating to bus/truck manufacturing plant layout in Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Iraq
• Directed projects relating to increase of bus/truck paint production Capacity


Establishing of the R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines (RDS)
The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines (RDS)
03/03 to 11/07
Board member
Tehran-Iran


Set up a new institution
Team Members: Nader Ale Ebrahim, Hamid Tahbaz Tavakoli, Bijan Mohabbi
I and some of my colleagues become founding father of The R&D Society of Iranian Industries & Mines (RDS) which has more than 1400 companies as members from different industrial sectors. RDS with its members is the holder of around 20% of Iran’s GDP.
Major duties of the RDS are as follows:
1. Identification of the research capabilities and capacities of the research and development units of the industrial centers and helping the members to benefit from their research potential abilities
2. Coordination among research & development units in order to compile executive approaches in order to choose suitable technology, compilation and definition of the executive principles needed for transfer of technology based on industrial requirements of the society, cooperation, and seeking for improved approaches needed for attraction and naturalization of the transferred technologies.
3. Cooperation with planning organizations needed for identification of the helpful research projects of the members and attraction of public social and financial supports toward execution of the useful projects



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Nader Ale Ebrahim has Technology Management PhD degree from the Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the mechanical engineering from University of Tehran with distinguished honors, as well as more than 17 years experience in the establishing R&D; department in different companies, project director and project coordinator and Knowledge based system implemented in R&D; department. His current research interests are focused on managing virtual new product development teams in SMEs R&D; centers. His papers/articles have presented in the several Journals and conferences.
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Development of an effectual collaborative model for new product development in SMEs through virtual R&D teams Author: Ebrahim, Nader Ale. Added Author: Universiti Malaya. Jabatan Kejuruteraan Rekabentuk dan Pembuatan. Local LC Call No.: TS176 UMP 2012 Ebr Date: 2012. Publication Information 2012. Library: P01-Utama/Main Library P07-Kejuruteraan /Engineering Library Format

[1306.0727] Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?

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h-index retrieved by citation indexes (Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science) is used to measure the scientific performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily available and may be used for performance measures of scientists, and for recruitment decisions. The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between the outputs and results from these three citation databases namely Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science based upon the h-index of a group of highly cited researchers (Nobel Prize winner scientist). The purposive sampling method was adopted to collect the required data. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the h-index between three citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science; the Google scholar h-index was more than the h-index in two other databases. It was also concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between h-indice...

Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?

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H. Farhadi, H. Salehi, M. M. Yunus, A. Aghaei Chadegani, M. Farhadi, M. Fooladi, and N. Ale Ebrahim, “Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the h-index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?,” Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 198-202, March, 2013.

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Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim, Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari, The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D; Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs (April 12, 2011). IEMS, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 109-114, June 2011. Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=1804726

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Globalization of R&D and Developing Countries

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Arash Golnam, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Ali Ghazizadeh 6th Conference of Industries and Mines R&D Centers- R&D Globalization (26 June 2007), pp. 1-41. Reflecting a broader trend towards the off shoring of services, a number of developing countries are attracting foreign direct investment in research and development. Transnational corporations, including the ones headquartered in developed countries, are selecting developing countries as locations for such activities. With the off shoring of research and development, firms aim to access the skills of new locations, adapting products to local markets and reducing their costs, in response to competitive pressures, technological changes and a more liberal trade and investment environment. In particular, information and communication technologies have had a profound effect on the way economic activities, including research and development, are organized, enabling firms to allocate tasks on a global scale through intra-firm information ..

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Nader Ale Ebrahim The First Iranian Students Scientific Conference in Malaysia (09 April 2011), pp. 1-69. Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is a halfway of receiving citation in the future. The rest of the way is advertising and disseminating the publications by using the proper “Research Tools”. Familiarity with the tools allows the researcher to increase his/her h-index in the short time. H-index shows the academicians influences in the specified field of research. Therefore, a person with higher level of h-index has more high quality publications with high amount of citations. This presentation, covers the following topics: Why publish and increase h-index?, Definition of h-index and g-index, Importance of h-index, How to use “Research Tools” Mind Map, Paper title preparation, Selecting keywords, Select the proper journal, Advertise published article, and finally Trace published article citation....

The biggest experience to reduce environmental pollutants by substitute fuel CNG in the Middle East & the Middle Asia

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Ali Momeni, Maziar Rostamnezhad, Nader Ale Ebrahim 9th International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV) Conference, NGV 2004 (16-18 October 2004), pp. 1-25. Momeni A., Rostamnezhad M., Ale Ebrahim N. (2004) The biggest experience to reduce environmental pollutants by substitute fuel CNG in the Middle East & the Middle Asia, 9th International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV) Conference, NGV 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina. pp. 1-25. Automobile industry is an exhaustive industry bringing development for any country. The industrial capabilities needed for development rest in this branch of industry. The Iranian automobile making companies move in line with this aim. But in recent decades, in addition to development of automobile industry, the pollution too has occupied the minds of the authorities of these companies. Some measures, investments, researches, and exhaustive studies related to the pollution problem have been made to produce an automobile of higher t..

Success factors for innovation management in networks of small and medium enterprises

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Alexandra Rese, Daniel Baier R&D Management, Vol. 41, No. 2. (2011), pp. 138-155. Because firms today operate in increasingly turbulent and complex environments, they need to be more proactive and innovative. Networks are gaining in importance, especially for small and medium enterprises with limited resources as R&D cooperations or cooperations along the value chain seem to be the only way to succeed with technologically challenging and promising but also expensive and risky product innovations. One of the key problems of these networks, however, is the question of how to plan, organize and control the innovation processes that are distributed over several partners. Theoretically derived and empirically proven success factors could help as much here as in the traditional success/failure discussion of new product development within firms. This paper discusses the effects of such factors, which partly derive from the traditional success/failure discussion within firms (e.g. marke..

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WORK TOGETHER… WHEN APART CHALLENGES AND WHAT IS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS, by Nader Ale Ebrahim

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Nader Ale Ebrahim. "Virtual Teams: A Literature Review" Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 3.3 (2009): 2653-2669.

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A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team or GDT) is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Powell, Piccoli and Ives define virtual teams in their literature review article "as groups of geographically, organizationally and/or time dispersed workers brought together by information and telecommunication technologies to accomplish one or more organizational tasks."[1] Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. & Taha, Z. in their recent (2009) literature review paper, added two key issues to definition of a virtual team “as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and/ or time dispersed knowledge workers who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks”[2]

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Faleh Abdelgader Alhawary, J. Info. Know. Mgmt., 11, 1250020 (2012) [11 pages] DOI: 10.1142/S0219649212500207

Factors Affecting Virtual Team Works Collaboration: A Case Study in the Jordanian Royal Medical Services

Faleh Abdelgader Alhawary

  • Department of Business Administration Applied, Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

    • The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which some factors such as trust, cultural differences, time differences, language have a significant effect on virtual team's work collaboration. Study population comprised of Jordanian Royal Medical Services; two most largest medical services were selected as a study sample; King Hussein Medical Centre and Queen Alia Medical Centre both located at Amman (the capital of Jordan). A purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents surveyed for this study and a questionaire was used to collect primary data from the respondents, a total of 120 questionnaires were administered to potential respondents chosen from the two medical services; a total of 105 usable questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of 87.5 %. Simple regression analysis was performed to test the study hypothesis. The study findings of this research show that there is a statistical significant effect at cultural differences, time differences and language on virtual team's collaboration, whereas, trust factor did not show a statistical significant effect. This study is delimited to only Jordanian royal medical services, as a case study, thus the results of this study cannot be generalised to other medical services.
    Keywords: Virtual teamwork; affecting factors; collaboration; Royal Medical Services; Jordan

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    The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs
    Ale Ebrahim, Nader ; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim ; Ahmed, Shamsuddin ; Taha, Zahari ;
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    The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high potential for the growth of SMEs. Due to the fast-growing complexity of new products coupled with new emerging opportunities of virtual teams, a collaborative approach is believed to be the future trend. This research explores the effectiveness of virtuality in SMEs' virtual R&D teams. Online questionnaires were emailed to Malaysian manufacturing SMEs and 74 usable questionnaires were received, representing a 20.8 percent return rate. In order to avoid biases which may result from pre-suggested answers, a series of open-ended questions were retrieved from the experts. This study was focused on analyzing an open-ended question, whereby four main themes were extracted from the experts' recommendations regarding the effectiveness of virtual teams for the growth and performance of SMEs. The findings of this study would be useful to product design managers of SMEs in order to realize the key advantages and significance of virtual R&D teams during the new product development (NPD) process. This is turn, leads to increased effectiveness in new product development's procedure.
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    Virtual Teams . New Product Development . Survey Finding . Small and Medium Enterprises
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    A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

    Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Md Yunus, Melor and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013): A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Published in: Asian Social Science , Vol. 9, No. 5 (27. April 2013): pp. 18-26.
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    Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
    Item Type: MPRA Paper
    Original Title:A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
    English Title:A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
    Language:English
    Keywords: web of science, scopus, database, citations, provenance, coverage, searching, citation tracking, impact factor, indexing, h-index, researcher profile, researcher ID
    Subjects:I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General
    I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Insititutions
    I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Insititutions > I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions
    O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development
    O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General
    Z - Other Special Topics > Z0 - General
    Z - Other Special Topics > Z0 - General > Z00 - General
    Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology
    Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology > Z18 - Public Policy
    Item ID:46898
    Depositing User:Nader Ale Ebrahim
    Date Deposited:11. May 2013 07:46
    Last Modified:11. May 2013 07:57
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