background : the high incidence of breast cancer in young women in iran and its resultant problems for families show the necessity of exploring studies conducted in this field. the present research was conducted to determine the volume of scientific production on breast cancer in iran, and to compare it with that of other countries in the middle east. methods : this systematic review study used...

BACKGROUND As the field of health policy continues to evolve and grow, it is important to examine the trend of scientific output generated in this domain. Scientific outputs can also be used to evaluate academic progress of the field in each country or over a given period of time. OBJECTIVE Aim of this study is to depict trend of publication on topics of health policy world-wide and to highli...

INTRODUCTION In the developing countries, diabetes mellitus as a chronic diseases, have replaced infectious diseases as the main causes of morbidity and mortality. International Diabetes Federation (IDF) recently estimates 382 million people have diabetes globally and more than 34.6 million people in the Middle East Region and this number will increase to 67.9 million by 2035. The aim of this s...

introduction: traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of quality of life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. hence, paying more attention to this area is of high important. this study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientific mapping of iranian researchers in traditional medicine during 1990-2011 in “web of science” databa...

The aim of this study was to determine the scientific status of endocrine, diabetes and metabolism research centers in Iran using exergy method in terms of scientific publications indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar database in 2013. This study is a cross-sectional one. The study population included 6 Iranian endocrine, diabetes and metabolism research centers. Data were c...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the current status of scientific production in the field of substance use and addiction in Iran, to determine its trend and pattern during a 5 years period (2008-2012). METHODS Using relevant keywords, we searched three international databases (Web of Science, Medline, and Scopus) and two local databases (SID and Iranmedex) to locate the papers published in the...