citation analysis of post-graduate students' theses of medical school of ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences in 1999-2011

background this research analyses the sources of theses of master of science graduated from medical sciences of jundishapur university between 1999-2011 for studying their documents. material and methods the method of research is descriptive and a kind of analyzing documents which are the most known method in bibliometrics studies. statistical analysis used in this study bradford law. results results of the research show that among 142 thesis of graduates medical faculty of ahvaz jundishapur university 13493 citations have been selected among the number 662 (4/9%) citations belongs to persian references and 12831 (95/1%) belong to foreign references. subject division of analyzed thesis was not the same and 8 subjects have been chosen as main subjects, among these , virology has allocated the major part.