  In this study, the presence and distribution of both Mendeley readerships and
Web of Science citations for the publications published in the 43 Iranian
international journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports have been
investigated. The aim was to determine the impact, visibility and use of the
publications published by the Iranian international journals in Mendeley
compared to their citation impact; furthermore, to explore if there is any
relation between these two impact indicators (Mendeley readership counts and
WoS citation counts) for these publications. The DOIs of the 1,884 publications
used to extract the readerships data from Mendeley REST API in February 2014
and citations data until end of 2013 calculated using CWTS in-house WoS
database. SPSS (version 21) used to analyze the relationship between the
readerships and citations for those publications. The Mendeley usage
distribution both at the publication level (across publications years, fields
and document types) and at the user level (across users disciplines, academic
status and countries) have been investigated. These information will help to
understand the visibility and usage vs citation pattern and impact of Iranian
scientific outputs.
