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A scientometric overview of 30 years (1978-2007) of medical sciences productivity in Iran
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Hafez Mohammad Hasanzadeh Esfanjani   1, Ali Valinejadi , Majid Naghipour , Parisa Farshid , Asghar Bakhtyarzadeh , Hamid Bouraghi |
| 1- , hafezhassanzadeh60@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (22762 Views) |
Background: Sustainable development necessitates scientific research in a wide area of subjects. As the results of research productions are usually reported in a wide range of publications, scientometric analysis has been considered as the main approach for measurement of scientific productivity. This research was conducted to assess the status of Iran’s medical subject areas by scientometric data derived from Web of Science (WOS).
Materials and methods: In this descriptive-applied studythe bibliographic data were collected from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database. The advanced search was performed with the country tag for Iran for six 5-year time periods. The current research includes all the articles of medical subject areas indexed in SCIE database during 1978-2007. The data analyses were performed with HistCite, SPSS and Excel software.
Results: Most articles from Iran universities were related to 2003-2007 time period. Most articles were observed in pharmacology field and lowest of them in geriatrics. The Tehran University of Medical Sciences identified as superior University in the 20 subject area. Scientific collaboration (22.5 percent) was mostly with USA scientific centers.
Conclusion: Fields of pharmacology, microbiology and biochemistry have a more increasingly growing than other fields. Continuance of this increasingly trend depends on factors such as, giving research facilities and budgets for other universities and considering Tehran University of medical science as a national successful model. |
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| Keywords: Citation database, Scientific production, Scientometric |
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Semi-pilot: Survey/Cross Sectional/Descriptive |
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Librarian Ship and Medical Information Sciences
Received: 2010/11/16 | Published: 2010/11/15
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