scientific products of authors at hamadan university of medical sciences in web of science (wos) and scopus databases

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by searching wos and scopus databases for articles published during 1998-2008. the research population included 472 records in wos and scopus databases. descriptive statistics was used in isi and scopuse.exe analyzers. results: most of the records related to hamadan university of medical sciences were published in 2008 (61 records in wos and 79 records in scopus). the most active author was mehrdad hajilooyi (17 articles in both wos and scopus) while the most cooperative university was tehran university of medical sciences (with 23 records in wos and 51 records in scopus). saudi medical journal (with 9 records in wos) and iranian biomedical journal (with 13 records in scopus) had the highest number of published scientific products of hamadan university of medical sciences. finally, neuroscience (26 records in wos) and general medicine (196 records in scopus) were the most attractive subjects of scientific products published by hamadan university of medical sciences. conclusion: although the number of scientific products of authors at hamadan university of medical sciences had a dramatic increase in recent years, it is still low in comparison with other universities of medical sciences. therefore, research policy-makers should consider different aspects such as research budget increase, scientific writing workshops, collaboration with internal and overseas scientists and etc. to promote research.