Background: Iran has achieved rapid scientific growth in the past two decades. Considerable growth in scientific publications by Iranian dermatologists matches the pace of Iran’s scientific publications in the previous decade. In this study, we aim to identify the current trends in Iranian dermatology publications and authorship over the past decade.Methods: We compared papers indexed in the ME...

Background: The number of scientific publication by a country is an important indication of its science generation and development. The aim of this study was to compare the publications in medical sciences of Islamic countries from 2002-2009 with those of a number of developed countries. Methods: The PubMed and CIA World Fact Book were used to extract the number of publications and socioeconomi...

the increasing amount of scientific collaboration has led to an increase  in the quality of scientific publications. the goal of this article is to analyze the co-authorship patterns and networks in sbums’s scientific publications in wos from 2009 to 2013. hence, the co-authorship indicators and ratio of national to international collaborations are determined. this research is a descriptive sur...