Knowledge in the medical field is generated, tested, and modified every minute. Surely, few activities undergo as much questioning and so many changes. Every medical act, every response to therapy, every surgical outcome is a possible update to medical concepts. If all of these impressions were published without any scrutiny, they would cause confusion about established principles; so that it d...

BACKGROUND Scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. The present study investigates the status of Iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 163 Iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commi...

BACKGROUND We conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the H, G, M, A and R indicators for all Iranian biomedical research centers (IBRCs) from the output of ISI Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus between 1991 and 2010. We compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators. METHODS This was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical stu...

BACKGROUND We aimed to examine the co-authorship networks in three successful Iranian academic research centers, in order to find the association between the scientific productivity and impact indicators with network features in a case study. METHODS We searched for English articles of the three research centers. We drew co-authorship maps of each center and calculated social network measures...

AIM The aim of this study is to analyze the epilepsy research output of Iran in national and global contexts, as reflected in its publication output indexed in Scopus citation database during 2000-2014. METHODS This study was based on the publications of epilepsy research from Iranian authors retrieved Feb. 2015 from Scopus Citation database [www.scopus.com]. The string used to retrieve the d...

BACKGROUND As in other fields of medicine, scientific production in the field of dentistry has significant placement. This study aimed at quantitatively and qualitatively evaluating Iranian researchers' scientific output in the field of dentistry and determining their contribution in each of dentistry subfields and branches. METHODS This research was a scientometric study that applied quantit...

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