Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan

The world is witnessing a paradigm shift in international relations. Due to rapid changes in science and technology, "Science and Technology Diplomacy" (scientific diplomacy) has emerged as a new strategy for developing, shaping, and reshaping international relations across the world. In this paper, a scientometric approach is applied to study the trend and progress of "Scientific Diplomacy" in Iran's relationship with Malaysia during the last few years. The results of the study show that, with 5569 joint publications and as part of the 10,239 authors from both countries, Iranian students in Malaysia have contributed to 10.13% of Iran's international joint publications between 2012 and 2017. Additionally, Iranian students in Malaysia have contributed to 9.8% of all Malaysian international joint publications during the same period. This is equal to 2.06% and 3.6% of all scientific publications in Iran and Malaysia, respectively. Using Malaysia as a specific case, the study shows a significant relationship between the presence of Iranian students in Malaysia and the growth of scientific and academic collaboration between the two countries. The results of the study have many scientific, political, cultural, and social implications. Considering this study and applying its results to similar cases, "Scientific Diplomacy" seems to work successfully worldwide and plays a key role in future relations among nations. "Scientific Diplomacy" has great potential for furthering the development of relations

This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire on Malaysian students’ knowledge and belief toward breast cancer and breast cancer screening. A cross sectional study was conducted among 792 female undergraduate students in selected public universities in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Convergent and discriminant validity tests were used for assessing construct validity of the questionnaire while the internal reliability of the instrument was checked by Cronbach’s alpha. The average age of respondents was 22 years (21.77± 1.20).
Majority of them were single (96.8%), Malay (91.9%), and Muslim (94.6%). This instrument had a good face and content validity. Cronbach’s alpha coeffcient for Health Belief Model Scales ranged between 0.73-0.83, indicating acceptable levels of internal consistency. The Kappa value for the knowledge part ranged between 0.52-0.90, also showing acceptable reliability. The developed instrument indicated good construct validity and reliability for Malaysian female students.
This instrument can help health care planners and providers to measure levels of knowledge and beliefs of Malaysian women toward breast cancer before planning appropriate intervention.

Attachment Theory is one of the most frequently used frameworks which revolutionised the understanding of human behaviour, from early childhood to adulthood. Attachment Theory's scholarly output was examined using a quantitative bibliometric approach, based on rigorous facts extracted from the WoS databases from 1970 to 2017. Overall, 1,700 documents in the category " Psychology " with the topic " Attachment Theory " were analysed to find trends of publications, networking coupling, keywords frequencies, top authors, and highly cited papers. A qualitative content analysis of the top 20 documents with the highest average citation per year was done to provide insight on document approaches. The results show that the scientific productivity in " attachment theory " is highly skewed. The authors recommend publishing attachment theory related articles in an open access journal. There is a need for further interdisciplinary research and practice collaboration to move beyond the sole psychological approach and realise the importance of multidisciplinary approaches.

The complexity and interconnected patterns of change in the 21st century have resulted in signifcant transformation in Iran. During the last two decades, much academic effort from a variety of disciplines went into trying to understand, examine and predict these transformations. However, there are no in-depth studies on these profound social and cultural changes as exemplifed in global scientifc productions. Using a bibliometric approach, we present a comprehensive study of the image of the social sciences in Iran based on the search item “Iran’s Social Sciences” in the Web of Science (WoS). The data were collected
from Web of Science’s Core Collections between 2000 and 2017 and was limited to document-type articles in the category of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Collection efforts resulted in 4,666 documents being retrieved. The majority of the documents were published in English and were written by Iranian authors. The results of this study show
that international collaboration through networking and co-authorship was lower than the global average. In terms of content, health- and medical-related concepts and themes were dominant in overall publications. Given this remarkable insight, more collaboration
between sociologists in Iran with scholars from other countries is needed to better highlight the desired issues and topics.
Further research might focus on the current ‘business models’ of publishing. While we advise launching more scientific journals at
the global level, it is important to evaluate whether international business models of publishing are really encouraging or if they
pose unnecessary bias and restrictions on knowledge development and participation of Iranian world-class sociologists.

Due to rapid changes in science, knowledge and technology, “Scientific Diplomacy” has emerged as strategy for developing, shaping and reshaping international relations across the world. In “Scientific Diplomacy,” the smart power of a country and how seductive its ideas, science and knowledge are the key factors. In this paper, scientometric approach is applied to study the dynamic of “Scientific Diplomacy” of Iran in Asia & Pacific with a specific focus on ASAIHL members. The study shows significant growth of the scientific productions (all together 8,780 indexed documents) between Iran and ASAIHL members from 2012 to 2017 (the minimum range of increase has been 32%). In overall, more than 17,982 researchers/scholars were involved in both Iran & ASAIHL countries, where 9,336 have been from Iran and 8,646 from ASAIHL countries. The results of the study have many scientific, political, cultural and social implications. Considering Iran & ASAIHL members as one of the dynamic and successful case, “Scientific Diplomacy” seems to work successfully worldwide and plays a key role in the future relation among the nations. Scientific Diplomacy, in very intelligent
way, has great potentials for further development of the nations and avoid their states from the possible disputes and conflicts.

This book is collection of 9 interviews with Famous Muslim Scholars in the field of communication in Malaysia about the nature of information Society. The interview have been done through using "chain and ball" technique in grounded theory for the purpose of my PhD thesis which was Toward Building an Islamic Paradigm of Information Society. The thesis itself will be published soon as as well.

This book is collection of 8  selected articles which were submitted to the first international seminar on "Issues and Challenges of ICT for Development: Iran and Malaysian Experiences" which was held on November 2009, at University Putra Malaysia. Most of the contributors to this seminar were communication scholars from Iran and Malaysia. It was jointly organized by Universiti Putra Malaysia and Allameh Tabatabai University from Iran. I was the chair person of the seminar and the editors of the book.

"  این کتاب ترجمه کتاب اخلاق در روابط عمومی نوشته فیلیپ سیب و کتی فیتز پاتریک
می باشد که به توصیه استاد بزرگوار دکتر افخمی از انگلیسی به فارسی ترجمه شد. چاپ اول کتاب در سال 1383 و چاپ دوم آن در سال 1392 توسط انتشارات ارسطو روانه بازار شد. کتاب مجموعه ای از فصول محتلف در ارتباط با اخلاق در روابط عمومی است و نویسندگان در سرتاسر کتاب کاروزان روابط عمومی را با مثال های عینی از چالش های اخلاقی که به طور روزانه با آنها مواجه می شوند، آشنا می سازد.
این کتاب هم اکنون یک مرجع دانشگاهی در زمینه روابط عمومی بوده و در دانشگاه های مختلف ایران تدریس می شود. همچنین خلاصه این کتاب در وبسایت های مختلف موجود می باشد. از جمله در
http://www.yahyaee.com/pr/2011/08/post-2.html"

Paycnews is the first Iranian Bilingual (Persian and Malay) news website which is focusing on Malaysia mainly. I'm the founder and Chief Editor for this news website  According to the Google Page Ranking, paycnews hold 3 points out of 10 points. Now it is leading news website in Malaysia and references for many Iranian news website like IRIB, IRNA, Mehrnews, VOA, etc.

Ameh is holding MBA in Communication and Public Relation. Her area of interests are as below: Strengthening basic health service systems to scale up AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria Interventions. You may communicate with her through: evialovely@gmail.com

Shima is holding Master in Communiction. Her interests are as below: Globalization and the new Media, Comparative literature and analyzing  literary texts within their specific cultural, linguistic and historical context ,Relations between literature and other arts/ media, International Relation, Postcolonial popular cultures, Community development and Social awareness, Islamic nation-states and beyond,  Reification of cultural identities in presenting on a global scale.

Topic is holding Master in Communication. He grew up very fast and totally changed in terms of creativity and innovation when I was teaching him in 2012- 2014. You may communicate with Topic through: topikakoje@yahoo.com or he is in academia here: https://limkokwing.academia.edu/AkojePeremobowei

Kamila is holding MBA in Communication and Public Relation. was quite professional and presentable in reporting, PR task and other communication area when i was teaching her in 2011 - 2013.  See Kamila here: https://limkokwing.academia.edu/KamilaKaliyeva . To communicate with her: kaliyeva.kamila@gmail.com

She is holding MA in Communication and Public Relation. She is very interested in Advocating for access to treatment and favorable policies for people living with HIV/AIDS, Gender Equality,  Abuse /Violence against women and Children; Policy implementations to Protect women, children; Conflict resolution.

Ludovic is holding MBA in Communication and Public Relation. He was among 5% top students who was diligent and bring insight and energy into the class. He is talent and quite capable for growing in the field of public relation and communication. See his profile her: https://limkokwing.academia.edu/LudovicFroget