OBJECTIVES With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, rich data, evolutionary biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute research policy decisions about climate change other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, draw on the literature own experiences make recommendations for how EBAs can engage br...

To visualize the structure of Iranian chemistry scientific publications in SciSearch, 43 Iranian and International chemists were identified. They were the highly cited scientists in 7682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index during the period from 1990 to 2006. Co-citation data for these authors from the...

Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states families entangle in modern societies [...]

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of Iranian and German medical students. METHODS Two hundred Iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 German medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the English form of the self-rating Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). RESULTS Analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6....

In Iran, the number of published articles has increased significantly in the basic and applied sciences including medicine and its subspecialties during the recent years. The present study reviewed Iranian science production in medicine, focusing on Iranian medical journals and assessing the current status of Iranian medical journals in several information databases. The study revealed that onl...

The present study aimed at Investigating the knowledge and attitude of Nursing Students towards Iranian Traditional Medicine in universities of Tehran in 2012-2013. 300 students of nursing studying at different universities in Tehran participated in this descriptive, cross-sectional study. The data was collected through a standard questionnaire with an acceptable validity and reliability. The q...

One of the remarkable transformations of the conservation community in recent years has been the proliferation of sociocultural anthropologists in and around protected areas and in conservation meetings and organizations. Anthropologists have been increasingly involved in institutions such as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working G...

Interdisciplinarity is highly valued these days in academia, and with good reason. Many problems require the concepts, tools and insights of multiple disciplines for their solutions. Furthermore, interdisciplinarity – done well – can help scholars break free of old paradigms and make true innovations. It is thus both unfortunate and perplexing that collaborations between psychology and anthropo...