background: the number of scientific publication by a country is an important indication of its science generation and development. the aim of this study was to compare the publications in medical sciences of islamic countries from 2002-2009 with those of a number of developed countries.   methods: the pubmed and cia world fact book were used to extract the number of publications and socioecono...

introduction: traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of quality of life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. hence, paying more attention to this area is of high important. this study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientific mapping of iranian researchers in traditional medicine during 1990-2011 in “web of science” databa...

background: the goals of the present work were to retrieve the scientific articles published on addiction to the internet, video games, and cell phones and to analyze the pattern of publications in this area (who is doing the research, when and where it is taking place, and in which journals it is being  published), to determine the research being conducted as well as to document geographical t...

To assess critically the scientific literature is a very challenging task; in general it requires analysing lot of documents to define state-of-the-art research field and classifying them. The classifier systems have tried address this problem by different techniques such as probabilistic, machine learning neural networks models. One most popular document classification approaches LDA (Latent D...

the scientific output of a researcher includes academic publications, creditability of these publications and number of citations. universities and institutions evaluating the research activities have always taken into account the academic status and ranking of the researchers. selection and application of an appropriate method to assess the academic activities have also been a concern for scie...