Background and Aim: In the recent years the number of science research health journals has increased in Iran. These journals should be based on the standards and criteria required in international indexing database. The aim of this study was to determine the adaptation rate of structural requirements on the Iranian medical journals with the criteria of indexing based on Scopus indexing database...

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Purpose: This research is devoted to study the consistency between keywords extracted from abstracts of theses by the experts in the related fields and descriptors provided by the indexers in database of “Iran’s theses abstracts”. Methodology: This research is an applied study based on content analysis. A checklist which consisted of 32 criteria was used. In addition, we consulted the experts ...

Introduction: According to mortality rates in Iran, cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms, perinatal mortality, and respiratory tract diseases were top rate mortality in 2003(1382). To reduce mortality rate, Iranian medical community need to know more about recent therapeutic regimens. Two main medical databases are Pubmed and Embase. Researching Pubmed and Embase indexing methods and comparing Me...

Purpose: This study was carried out to determine the level of precision, recall, and searching time for “Nama” and “Namayeh” databases, as well as to find out which of the indexing tools (thesaurus and Dewey decimal classification) helps us more in improvement of information retrieval. Methodology: This study is an analytical survey in which the necessary data was collected by direct observati...