Background: An increase in the number of medical schools in Iran has caused a conspicuous escalation in medical research during recent years with the numbers of papers published in Iranian and international biomedical journals increasing annually. In addition to quantitative indices, the evaluation of medical research in Iran requires qualitative parameters. The aim of this study is the qualita...

This is to study Iranian retracted papers indexed in Web of Science (WOS) in various Structural and content-wise aspects from the beginning to 2017 to identify cases have ended up to retraction Finally, to investigate the relationship between retraction and publication of these articles. Methodology / Approach: The final research population is 103 papers out of 320872 which using scientometrics...

Background and purpose: Biomarkers are measurable characteristic that reflect the severity or the presence of some diseases states. It can be used to examine organ function and other aspects of health states. The objective of the current study was to analyze the trend of scientific production originated by Iranian authors. Material and methods: Scientometrics and economic indicators were used ...

Introduction:Cyberchondria can be considered one of the emerging challenges in the age of the Internet. The aim of this study was to to investigate the scientific productivity and analyze the collaboration network of authors in the cyberchondria field in the Web of Science (WoS). Methods:To conduct this research, scientometric, altmetrics and social network analysis indicators were utilized. A...

Background and Aim: Heterogeneous insertion of Organizational affiliations can cause loss of ranking points in the national and international levels. So, we decided to investigate the different affiliations of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in scientific publications that indexed in Web of Science and their effect on the result of research activities evaluation in the year 2012....