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Designing A Viable Scientific Communication Model: Vsm Approach, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi
Designing A Viable Scientific Communication Model: Vsm Approach, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi
Purpose – This paper aims to design a viable model for a scholarly communication system. Design/methodology/approach – Stafford Beer’s viable system model (VSM) is an exceptionally insightful analysis tool which has been applied in different fields. This paper illustrates the usefulness of Beer’s model as a tool for anticipating, planning, and implementing large-scale development in the scientific communication domain. Following the Beer thinking of organisational structure and the usefulness of VSM in knowledge management stated by some researchers, a viable scientific communication model (VSCM) was designed. Findings – The paper has developed a viable scientific communication model which relates personal …
Publication Delay In Iranian Scholarly Journals, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Neda Zeraatkar, Narjes Vara
Publication Delay In Iranian Scholarly Journals, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Neda Zeraatkar, Narjes Vara
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi
Scholarly periodicals in Iran are considered main information resources in the development of knowledge in scholarly areas. About 566 periodicals have publication licenses from the Commission of Scholarly Periodicals Evaluation of Ministry of Science, Research & Technology (MSRT), with sixty-eight published in English. This paper studies the publication delay of twenty-six Iranian scholarly periodicals which are published in Persian in Iran, not those Iranian journals which are published in English in Iran or out of the country. The peer review and scholarly publication processes in Iranian journals are quite lengthy and need improvement. There was no significant relationship between publication …