The world of scientific publications has been largely oblivious to the advent of the Web and to advances in ICT. Scientific knowledge dissemination is still based on the traditional notion of “paper” publication and on peer review as quality assessment method. The current approach encourages authors to write many (possibly incremental) papers to get more “tokens of credit”, generating often unn...

background: diabetes is a worldwide problem nowadays. the present study was designed to assess the productivity of research on diabetes and to evaluate the gap between the burden of diabetes and research on diabetes, in both developed and developing countries. materials and methods: an extensive search in pubmed database for diabetes publications, using diabetes as the mesh term, was carried ou...

background institut pasteur international network (ipin), which includes 32 research institutes around the world, is a network of research and expertise to fight against infectious diseases. a scientometric approach was applied to describe research and collaboration activities of ipin.   methods publications were identified using a manual search of ipin member addresses in science citation inde...

Fake and misconducted scientific articles are misleading the researchers; it can also impose a huge cost on the academic centers and health system. Finally invalidated published research may give rise to incorrect treatment guidelines that may harm the patients. Based on our search in retraction watch database, 10 retracted orthopedic articles were from Iran. All the reported retracted article ...