creators_name: FARHADI, MARYAM creators_name: SALEHI, HADI creators_name: EMBI, MOHAMED AMIN creators_name: FOOLADI, MASOOD creators_name: FARHADI, HADI creators_name: AGHAEI CHADEGANI, AREZOO creators_name: ALE EBRAHIM, NADER type: journalp datestamp: 2013-11-18 21:14:07 lastmod: 2013-11-18 21:14:07 metadata_visibility: show title: Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index ispublished: pub subjects: JOURNALS subjects: comp-sci-hci subjects: peer-review subjects: soc-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development, H-index, Middle East abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country’s scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of these sub-indices on country’s H-index. To this purpose, required data for the panel of 14 Middle East countries over the period 1995 to 2009 is collected. Findings of the current study show that ICT development increases the H-index of the sample countries. The results also indicate that ICT Use and ICT Skill sub-indices positively contribute to higher H-index but the effect of ICT access on country’s H-index is not clear. date: 2013-11-10 date_type: published publication: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology volume: 57 number: 1 publisher: Little Lion Scientific Islamabad Pakistan pagerange: 122-127 refereed: TRUE referencetext: M. FARHADI, H. SALEHI, M. A. EMBI, M. FOOLADI, H. FARHADI, A. AGHAEI CHADEGANI, and N. ALE EBRAHIM, “Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index,” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, vol. 57, no. 1, 10 November, 2013. citation: FARHADI, MARYAM and SALEHI, HADI and EMBI, MOHAMED AMIN and FOOLADI, MASOOD and FARHADI, HADI and AGHAEI CHADEGANI, AREZOO and ALE EBRAHIM, NADER (2013) Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/9120/1/Maryam%20Farhadi%27s%20Paper%20in%20JATIT.pdf