Writing skill is one of the four language skills in learning English language in EFL setting. The role of self-esteem in learning second language as is one of the major important factors is very vital; because, success or failure of a learner depends mostly on the degree of ones' self-esteem. This research aimed at investigating the correlation between self-esteem and English writing achievemen...

conclusions although iranian publications in the field of nephrology and urology have had a considerable and significant increase in the recent years amongst the middle eastern countries, there is a wide distance to be a science exporter country. results the total number of publications in the field of nephrology and urology was 3,771 (average of 189 papers per year). most of the iranian nephro...

Traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) is a main part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The popularity and use of alternative therapies are increasing due to adverse effects and ineffectiveness of pharmacologic treatments in some cases. Herbal medicine is one of the methods of traditional therapy that plays a key role in the treatment of various diseases specifically in diabetes mell...

this paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the medical sciences (ms) domains in iran. totally 9047 articles indexed in isi (thomson reuters database) from 1989 to 2008 in december 2008 have been extracted. histcite tm applications are used to discover the iranian publication status during this period. the publication count has grown at an approximate rate of 40.5% per year. w...

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 Injuries are a major health problem in developing countries. Recently, the occurrence of injuries and those related to mortality have increased dramatically in Iran. We have conducted this study to report domestic research publications in the field of trauma from 2000 to 2006 in Iran. METHODS The contents of 128 biomedical journals were analyzed. Sina Trauma Data Bank (STDB) was se...

This paper investigates the visual representation of modern domestic space in printed media, particularly, women’s interest publications during Pahlavi period Iran. The aim study is to understand how notion ‘being modern’ regarding was explained and visualized media. In other words, main concern this explore concepts that were mostly taken into account formation Iranian publications. Therefore,...

INTRODUCTION As a common type of malignancy, breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women globally. The purpose of the current study was to analyze Iran research performance on Breast Cancer in the context of national and international studies, shown in the publications indexed in Scopus database during 1991-2015. METHODS Data were retrieved from the Scopus citation database in ...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

objectives: scientometric methods and the resulting citations have been applied to investigate the scientific performance of a nation. the present study was designed to collect the statistical information of dental articles by iranian authors published in pubmed. materials and methods: we searched the pubmed database for dental articles of iranian authors until june 31, 2015. all abstracts were...