INTRODUCTION Quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. The numbers of Iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of Iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic textbooks. METHODS AND MATERIALS Three known textbooks (Ingle's Endodontics, Seltzer and Be...

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 ...

To visualize the structure of Iranian chemistry scientific publications in SciSearch, 43 Iranian and International chemists were identified. They were the highly cited scientists in 7682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index during the period from 1990 to 2006. Co-citation data for these authors from the...

INTRODUCTION We performed a bibliometric search to evaluate the number of papers written by the Iranian nephrologists. MATERIALS AND METHODS We considered all peer-reviewed articles published by nephrologists in biomedical journals quoted by the Medline database and the IranMedex (an Iranian database for indexing medical articles of local journals) between 1997 and 2007. The findings were ana...

BACKGROUND To meet the future challenges in the field of reproductive medicine in Iran, better understanding of published studies is needed. Bibliometric methods and social network analysis have been used to measure the scope and illustrate scientific output of researchers in this field. OBJECTIVE This study provides insight into the structure of the network of Iranian papers published in the...

CONTEXT We performed a bibliometric search to evaluate the number of papers published in the field of nephrology and urology by Iranian researchers in the past two decades. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION We did an online search in abstract/title part of articles with 129 keywords such as kidney, renal, hemodialysis, transplant, nephrology, glomerulonephritis, ureteral, nephrolithiasis, and etc. Endnote...

Background and Objective: The evaluation of the publishing trend of articles in various scientific fields provides an insight into the efforts of researchers in the field of knowledge. Accordingly, the present study has evaluated and analyzed the scientific publications on brucellosis conducted by Iranian researchers using scientometrics methods and analysis of social networks. Methods: The pr...

introduction: quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. the numbers of iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic text books. methods and materials: three known textbooks ( ingle’s endodontics, seltzer and ...

this study mainly aims to compare the quantity of iranian publications and their citation impact in the two popular citation databases, scopus and web of science. the documents which specified iran as their affiliated country published during 1998-2007 were selected as iran’s publications in the two databases. during the examined years, iran has published 49198 documents in scopus and 35061 doc...