Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part, evolutionary anthropologists are not particularly prominent in this discussion, or at least not acknowledged to be. Why is this the case? One reason may be...

The concepts of "stress" and "health" are foundational in physical anthropology as guidelines for interpreting human behavior and biocultural adaptation in the past and present. Though related, stress and health are not coterminous, and while the term "health" encompasses some aspects of "stress," health refers to a more holistic condition beyond just physiological disruption, and is of conside...

Negar Taleschian Tabrizi, Barmak Yaaghoubian, Fariba Pashazadeh, Sakineh Hajebrahimi. Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Urology, Iran...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to assess and compare the quantity and quality of Iranian and Turkish researchers working in the field of Parasitology from bibliometric point of view. METHODS To assess the contributions and achievements of the Iranian and Turkish parasitologists, bibliometric analysis was carried out based on the citation data retrieved from Web of Science. RESULTS The a...