BACKGROUND Diabetes burden is a serious warning for urgent action plan across the world. Knowledge production in this context could provide evidences for more efficient interventions. Aimed to that, we quantify the trend of diabetes research outputs of Middle East countries focusing on the scientific publication numbers, citations, and international collaboration. MATERIALS AND METHODS This s...

background :research in medical education has been paid more attention than before however the quality of research reporting has not been comprehensively appraised.to evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of iranian published medical education articles.   methods: articles describing medical students, residents, fellows or program evaluation were included. articles related to contin...

background : the high incidence of breast cancer in young women in iran and its resultant problems for families show the necessity of exploring studies conducted in this field. the present research was conducted to determine the volume of scientific production on breast cancer in iran, and to compare it with that of other countries in the middle east. methods : this systematic review study used...

The main aim in this study was to collect the experiences of Iranian researchers about sulfur mustard (SM) and provide a guideline for the prevention of abuse for this dangerous agent. We searched valid national and international databases using related key words in the two languages. We found 193 articles which had been published in medical journals. Among them, 25 articles had some implicatio...

background: the ever-growing elderly population of iran and their physical and mental consequences put emphasis on the necessity of determining the quality of life (qol) in this social group. this systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the mean score of qol in iranian elderly citizens. methods: twenty-one articles that were indexed in iranian (magiran and iran medex) and internat...

according to the articles 169 to 179 of the civil judgment enforcement law, the enforcement of the foreign judgment in the iranian law is based on the reciprocal act. but extension of international relations in the world today, above all in the commercial domain, requires that enforcement of foreign judgment be accepted after obtaining its correctness conditions based on res judicata. therefore...