the rate of reference to iranian literature in psychological and psychiatric studies: a review of the studies about psychological and psychiatric aspects of the imposed iran-iraq war

this study investigated the rate of reference to iranian literature in psychological and psychiatric studies. for this aim, 45 empirical researched on psychological and psychiatric aspects of imposed iran-iraq war which were published from 1980 to 1996 were studied. 18.6% of their referenes were iranian literatures in the list of references, but only 21.3% of these articles used irainain literatures references in their paper. utilization of the irainain references decresed from beginning of war in 1980 to the end of 1996. however utilization of the iranian articles about iran-iraq war increased during the same period. probably inadequacy of the scientific information dissemination system had led to the decrease in use of the iranian references. in this article all of studies on the psychological and psychiatric consequences of iran-iraq war that have been published until the end of 1996 were listed.