background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

background: the purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of iran. methods: the study was done in 2009-10 in tehran, kerman, and iran medical universities, iran.  we contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of iranian journal of public health...

Dear editor Periodical assessment and monitoring of journal statistics by editor in chief and other related editorial board  bring important insight to determine the quality of scientific production process and provide detail if a journal is paving the way to  join the mainstream internationally recognized indexing databases such as ISI [www.webofknowledge.com], Medline [www.Pubmed.org] and Sc...

it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first edition of the journal of craniomaxillofacial research and i would therefore like to take this opportunity to point out a brief history of the field ofmaxillofacial surgery and also the craniomaxillofacial research center in iran. the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was initially formed and taught under the name of or...

List of Reviwers for Journal  2021-2022 همکاران فرهیخته زیر در سال 1400 با مجله دانشگاه همکاری نموده‌اند که به این وسیله با چاپ اسامی آنها به ترتیب حروف الفبا، از زحمات ایشان قدردانی می‌گردد. دانشگاه محل کار نام و نام خانوادگی استادیار دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان آذین مهدیه استادیار دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان احمدی کهنعلی جعفر استادی...

Background:  Research projects are presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). It is unknown how many achieve publication in peer-reviewed journals. We sought to determine current rates of publication of podium and poster presentations.   Methods:  All ASSH podium and poster presentations from 2000 to 2005 were reviewed, and an Internet-based search ...