BACKGROUND The journal impact factor is increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research. This is in contrary to its critical limitations, e.g., its marked variation across scientific disciplines. This study was conducted to describe, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, the contribution of Iranian universities and research institutes to biomedical publications in 200...

Willem H. de Boer1 [email protected] Joan Lasenby1 [email protected] Jonathan Cameron1 [email protected] Rich Wareham1 [email protected] Shiraz Ahmad1 [email protected] Charlotte Roach1 [email protected] Ward Hills2 [email protected] Richard Iles3 [email protected] 1 Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 2 Pneumacare Limited, Duxford 3 Addenbrookes NHS Hospita...

the aim of the present study is to investigate and compare the role of journals with different access models (including print, database, print/database subscriptions) as well as unsubscribed models in meeting the information needs of shiraz university researchers. using a bibliometric method, the communication studies the references used in shiraz university scientific papers indexed by thomson...

Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum, is a rare tumor of thymic epithelium that can be locally invasive. We reported 2 cases of invasive thymoma incidentally found during routine coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at Faghihee Hospital of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences of Iran in a period of about 6 months. The 2 patients were male and above 60 years old....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictive value of some biochemical markers in the outcome of extremity vascular trauma. METHODS This study comprised 30 patients with traumatic arterial injury and acute limb ischemia referred to Namazi hospital affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Ssciences, over a period of 8 months, from Sep 2009 to Jul 2010. Venous blood samples were drawn from distal i...