This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-b... more This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-based approach. Based on an adopted moral sensitivity testing model nine scenarios were developed to assess bribery, discrimination, hypocrisy, contempt, blackmail, collusion, cover-up, whistleblowing, and disregarding merits. The scenarios were sent to a sample of 588 librarians via email. The results indicated that the librarians had a moderate level of moral sensitivity and their moral development was at the “conventional level II.” This suggests that their focus has been on social aspects and upstream regulations in making moral judgments while considering legality and morality as equivalent.
Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2015
Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve per... more Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information. The qualitative design was based on phenomenology approach and we carried out 37 interviews with clinical and basic sciences faculty members of IUMS in 2014. The participants were selected using a random sampling method. All interviews were recorded by a digital voice recorder, and then transcribed, codified and finally analyzed using NVivo 8 software. The use of PIM electronic tools (e-tools) was below expectation among the studied sample and just 37% had reasonable knowledge of PIM e-tools such as, external hard drivers, flash memories etc. However, all participants used both paper and electronic devices to store and access inf...
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020
Background: Of scientometric goals are to explore scientific productivity and trend, elicit scien... more Background: Of scientometric goals are to explore scientific productivity and trend, elicit scientific collaborations and inter/intra and cross disciplinary relations within a realm of study. This is a descriptive scientometric analysis of Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI) from 1987 to 2018. Methods: The data were collected from 1987 to 2018 including the MJIRI annual publication number, annual growth rate (AGR), annual citation indicators, annual degree of collaboration (DC), the most active universities, and the most co-occurred keywords being used in MJIRI articles. Results: MJIRI has published 2166 articles in the field of health and medicine between 1987 and 2018, over a third of which have been published during the last five years (2014-2018). The highest and lowest AGR were recorded in 2014 (AGR=276.190%) and 2001(AGR=-28.75%), respectively. The journal CiteScore has increased from 0.26 in 2013 to 0.94 in 2018; the SCImago Journal Rank has promoted from ...
This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-b... more This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-based approach. Based on an adopted moral sensitivity testing model nine scenarios were developed to assess bribery, discrimination, hypocrisy, contempt, blackmail, collusion, cover-up, whistleblowing, and disregarding merits. The scenarios were sent to a sample of 588 librarians via email. The results indicated that the librarians had a moderate level of moral sensitivity and their moral development was at the “conventional level II.” This suggests that their focus has been on social aspects and upstream regulations in making moral judgments while considering legality and morality as equivalent.
This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-b... more This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-based approach. Based on an adopted moral sensitivity testing model nine scenarios were developed to assess bribery, discrimination, hypocrisy, contempt, blackmail, collusion, cover-up, whistleblowing, and disregarding merits. The scenarios were sent to a sample of 588 librarians via email. The results indicated that the librarians had a moderate level of moral sensitivity and their moral development was at the “conventional level II.” This suggests that their focus has been on social aspects and upstream regulations in making moral judgments while considering legality and morality as equivalent.
Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2015
Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve per... more Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information. The qualitative design was based on phenomenology approach and we carried out 37 interviews with clinical and basic sciences faculty members of IUMS in 2014. The participants were selected using a random sampling method. All interviews were recorded by a digital voice recorder, and then transcribed, codified and finally analyzed using NVivo 8 software. The use of PIM electronic tools (e-tools) was below expectation among the studied sample and just 37% had reasonable knowledge of PIM e-tools such as, external hard drivers, flash memories etc. However, all participants used both paper and electronic devices to store and access inf...
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020
Background: Of scientometric goals are to explore scientific productivity and trend, elicit scien... more Background: Of scientometric goals are to explore scientific productivity and trend, elicit scientific collaborations and inter/intra and cross disciplinary relations within a realm of study. This is a descriptive scientometric analysis of Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI) from 1987 to 2018. Methods: The data were collected from 1987 to 2018 including the MJIRI annual publication number, annual growth rate (AGR), annual citation indicators, annual degree of collaboration (DC), the most active universities, and the most co-occurred keywords being used in MJIRI articles. Results: MJIRI has published 2166 articles in the field of health and medicine between 1987 and 2018, over a third of which have been published during the last five years (2014-2018). The highest and lowest AGR were recorded in 2014 (AGR=276.190%) and 2001(AGR=-28.75%), respectively. The journal CiteScore has increased from 0.26 in 2013 to 0.94 in 2018; the SCImago Journal Rank has promoted from ...
This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-b... more This study aims to evaluate the moral sensitivity of Iranian public librarians using a scenario-based approach. Based on an adopted moral sensitivity testing model nine scenarios were developed to assess bribery, discrimination, hypocrisy, contempt, blackmail, collusion, cover-up, whistleblowing, and disregarding merits. The scenarios were sent to a sample of 588 librarians via email. The results indicated that the librarians had a moderate level of moral sensitivity and their moral development was at the “conventional level II.” This suggests that their focus has been on social aspects and upstream regulations in making moral judgments while considering legality and morality as equivalent.
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