Zohreh Zahedi

Education

PhD. in Quantitative Studies of Science: Social Media Metrics (Altmetrics), Scientometrics & Research evaluation , Leiden University , The Netherlands (2013 - 2018)
Thesis title: Understanding the value of social media metrics in research evaluation
MSc. in Information science , Shiraz University , Iran (2003 - 2005)
Thesis title: Comparative analysis of user interfaces of scientific data providers: presenting a model
BSc. in Information science , Shiraz University , Iran (1999 - 2003)

Quantitative studies of science and technology (informetrics, scientometrics, webometrics, altmetrics)
Social Media Data Analysis
Social Media Metrics (Altmetrics)
Research Evaluation & Indicators
Research metrics
Science & Technology Evaluation & Policy Making
Web-based Scholarly Communication
Social Impact of Research
Open Science

Research activities

Journal articles

1	Adrian Diaz-faes, Zohreh Zahedi (2026) Rethinking altmetrics as process-based indicators: a conceptual framework for construct clarity Quantitative Science Studies: 7; 1-30
2	Homa Arshadi, Mostafa Hosseini Golkar, Zohreh Zahedi, Maryam Ashrafi, Maryam Okhovati (2025) Bridging the Gap: Scenario Planning for Science and Technology in Breast Cancer Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran: 39; 139-153
3	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas (2020) Do Online Readerships Offer Useful Assessment Tools? Discussion Around the Practical Applications of Mendeley Readership for Scholarly Assessment scholarly assessments reports: 2; 1-14
4	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas (2018) General discussion of data quality challenges in social media metrics: Extensive comparison of four major altmetric data aggregators PLoS One: 13(5); e0197326
5	Zohreh Zahedi, Stefanie Haustein (2018) On the relationships between bibliographic characteristics of scientific documents and citation and Mendeley readership counts: A large-scale analysis of Web of Science publications Journal of Informetrics: 12(1); 191-202
6	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters (2017) Mendeley readership as a filtering tool to identify highly cited publications Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology: 68(10); 2511-2521
7	Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi, Paul Wouters (2015) The thematic orientation of publications mentioned on social media: Large-scale disciplinary comparison of social media metrics with citations Aslib Journal of Information Management: 67(3); 260-288
8	Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi, Paul Wouters (2014) Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology: 66(10); 2003-2019
9	Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas (2014) New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com Profesional de la Informacion: 23(4); 359-366
10	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters (2014) How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications SCIENTOMETRICS: 101; 1491–151
11	Zohreh Zahedi, Mansoureh Serati Shirazi (2012) An Investigation of Citations Pattern to Iranian’s English Journals Using Google Scholar & ISI: Do They Differ? COLLNET JOURNAL OF SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: 6; 87-96

Conference articles

1	Zohreh Zahedi (2024) Visualising the Persian Gulf scientific fields using VoS Viewer visualisation software & advanced scientometrics techniques Second International Conference on the History, Culture and Civilization of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Bushehr
2	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas (2014) Challenges in the quality of social media data across altmetric data aggregators. 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, The Netherlands, Leiden
3	Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters (2013) Do Mendeley Readership Counts Help to Filter Highly Cited WoS Publications better than average citation impact of journals (JCS)? 15th International Conference of the International Society or Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Turkey, Istanbul
4	Zohreh Zahedi, Mansoureh Serati Shirazi (2011) An Investigation of Citations Pattern to Iranian’s English Journals Using Google Scholar & ISI: Do They Differ? 7th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Twelfth COLLNET Meeting 20-23 September, 2011, Turkey, Istanbul
5	Zohreh Zahedi (2008) Visibility of Iranian Journals Web sites: A Webometric Study Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET, Germany, Berlin

Projects

1	Zohreh Zahedi (2024) Providing expertise consultancy services for including Qom University in the InCites Benchmarking & Analytics & indexing the university journals in Scopus دانشگاه خلیج فارس
2	Zohreh Zahedi, Zahra Yousefi, Zeinab Saber Nazaragha, Mansoureh Serati Shirazi (2023) A comparative analysis of international university ranking systems: recommendations and practical steps for the presence of Persian Gulf University in these rankings (particularly Times Higher Education Ranking System) دانشگاه خلیج فارس

Theses

1	Homa Arshadi, Maryam Okhovati, Zohreh Zahedi, Maryam Ashrafi (2025) Investigating the frontiers between science and technology in the field of breast cancer and providing a solution to reduce the gap between them using scenario-based approach

Books

1	Paul Wouters, Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas (2019) Social media metrics for new research evaluation ISBN: 978-3-030-02511-3
2	Zohreh Zahedi (2018) Understanding the value of social media metrics for research evaluation ISBN: 9789463234016
3	Rodrigo Costas, Ingeborg Meijer, Zohreh Zahedi, Paul Wouters (2013) The Value of Research Data-Metrics for datasets from a cultural and technical point of view.

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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

1	Introduction to Scientometrics
2	Introduction to databases
3	Website designing and management for library and information centers
4	Organization and classification of materials for libraries and information centers
5	Special text in English
6	Scientific Writing

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Executive activities

Member of the Scientometrics Committee of the 9th Board of Directors of the Iranian Library and Information Association based on the invitation of the President of the Association (2025 - present)
Member of the Strategic Council Working Group of the Scientometrics Department, Vice President for Research and Technology, Persian Gulf University (2025 - present)
Scientific Committee member of the 29th Science & Technology Indicators (STI-ENID2025) Conference,3-5 September 2025, Bristol, UK. (2025 - 2025)
Scientific Secretary of The First National Conference on Science, Technology, & Innovation Evaluation and Policy-making: Approaches, Challenges, & Strategic solutions (2025 - present)
Editorial board member of Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science (MJLIS) (2025 - present)
Scientific Advisor, Student Scientific Association in Information Science, Persian Gulf University. (2025 - present)
Editorial Board Member of the Scientometrics Research Journal (2023 - present)
Scientific Editor oFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics Research Assessment Insights in Research Assessment, Scholarly Communication, and Patent Analytics 2022-2023 (2022 - present)
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Applied Scientometrics Studies (2021 - present)
Scientific Advisor, Needs & Answers Network (NAN), Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) (2021 - 2023)
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Digital and Smart Libraries Researches (2020 - present)
Editorial Board Member of Caspian Journal of Scientometrics (2020 - present)
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Knowledge & Information Management (2020 - present)
Scientific advisor of Altmetrics Project, Delft University Library, The Netherlands (2019 - present)
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Altmetrics (JOI) (2019 - present)
Memeber of Organizing Committe of International Altmetrics Conference (2019 - present)
Editorial Board Member of Metrics Toolkit Project (2018 - present)
Researcher, Centre for Science & Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands (2016 - present)
Head of international collection development, Regional Information Center for Science and Technology, Shiraz, Iran. (2006 - 2008)

Advanced training workshop on Introduction to VoSViewer (2021 )
Research Evaluation: Challenges and Solutions (2020 )
Strategies for improving the visibility of the scientific research works and activities of faculty m (2022 )
Researcher Visibility Workshop. Visibility Enhancement Training Course. Improving Researcher Visibil (2022 )
Advanced training course on Introduction to the Zotero citation managements for PGU graduates (2025 )
Special training course on Advanced Tools for Literature Review & Research Management for PGU facult (2025 )
Organizing Social Media Metrics Workshop for CWTS researchers at Leiden University, in the Netherlan (2018 )
Giving Lecture on Social media metrics & research evaluation for international researchers and polic (2017 )
New methods of access to electronic information on the web for Persian Gulf University central libra (2009 )
Information and communication technology (2008 )
Information seeking behaviour for Persian Gulf University students and Faculty members (2009 )
Introduction to internet tools for Persian Gulf University students (2007 )
Introduction to search engines and e-mail for Persian Gulf University students (2008 )

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