background : this study was carried out to evaluate activities in different branches of science in iran compared to other countries over the past 35 years. methods : e ssential science indicators (esi ) and web of science from (thomson reuters isi) and scimago journal & country rank (sjr) were searched for scientometrics data . esi indicated place of iran among other countries in all 22 scienti...

septicemia in neonates is the commonest cause of mortality. early recognition and diagnosis of neonatal sepsis remains a challenge because of the variable and nonspecific clinical presentation. the laboratory criteria are often non specific and not fully reliable. the objective of this review is to highlight the various hematological and biological markers of neonatal sepsis. we searched pubmed...

background: due to embargoes and sanctions from 1979 until 2015, impact on scientific research in iran may be critical. public health is the main example of this burning point. in this paper, the aim was to map the scientific research in public health in iran until 2014 with area studies as well as networks of countries involved. methods: we used bibliographic analyses using vos viewer software...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the web pages of islamic world science citation center (isc), the islamic countries sci using nielsen`s heuristic principles and was performed during september 2012. among nielsen`s 10 usability heuristic principles, five were covered. five professional evaluators were asked to evaluate the database using nielsen`s five criteria. the total average of se...

background : scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. the present study investigates the status of iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. methods : total 163 iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commission of ira...

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...