background: local ethical committees in medical sciences in iran were established in 1999 in order to assess and evaluate the observance of ethical standards throughout the universities and research centers. the purpose of this study is to analyze the situation of local ethical committees in order to develop research ethics guideline. methods: for this cross-sectional study which has been condu...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The study of the scientific evidence citation production by famous databases of the world is one of the important indicators to evaluate and rank the universities. The study at investigating the scientific production of Northern Iran Medical Sciences Universities in Scopus from 2005 through 2010. METHOD This survey used scientometrics techniq...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to compare scientific production by providing quantitative evaluation of science output in five Western Iranian Medical Universities including Hamedan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Lorestan University of Medical Sciences using scientometrics indicators based on data indexed in Scopus for period between the years 2010 to 2014. METHODS In this scientometric stud...

this study deals with the visibility, influence rate of diffrent links in virtual universities websites. the current community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of iran medical universities. the websites have been retrieved by the use of searchin and goolge webometic tools and are downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links. the...

background: citations are fundamental basis of all scientific papers including theses. inaccurate and improper citations would lead to high expenses for the researchers and libraries to access these citations. this research tried to review the accuracy of references in persian defended medical specialized theses in 2007 in tabriz university of medical sciences, tabriz, iran. it also aimed to de...