Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the rate of Iranian researchers collaboration with their colleagues in other countries in science citation index (SCI). In addition, it seeks to investigate the visibility of publications by Iranian researchers, and particularly the visibility of papers resulting from international collaboration. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the survey ...

BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

BACKGROUND This research aimed to systematically study and outline the methods of hospital performance evaluation used in Iran. METHODS In this systematic review, all Persian and English-language articles published in the Iranian and non-Iranian scientific journals indexed from Sep 2004 to Sep 2014 were studied. For finding the related articles, the researchers searched the Iranian electronic...

background: basic science studies evaluation is important feature for an effective implementation of diabetes research and funding policy. this study aimed to provide an evaluation of diabetes basic research output up to 2015 in iran. methods: data were retrieved from scientific search engine including pubmed, web of science, scopus as well as iranian science databases including sid, iranmedex,...

Abstract Modern science is dominated by scientific productions from teams. A recent finding shows that teams of both large and small sizes are essential in research, prompting us to analyze the extent which a country’s work carried out big or Here, using over 26 million publications Web Science, we find China’s research output more than rest world, particularly case fields natural science. Desp...

BACKGROUND Considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. OBJECTIVES Food-based strategies, which are one of the outstanding medical solutions in Complementary and Alternative Medicine including Iranian Traditional Medicine have been investigated. MATERIALS ...