introduction:   the aim of this survey was to illustrate statistical information about endodontic research published in pubmed index journals from the different universities of iran. materials and methods: a pubmed search was performed to retrieve the endodontic publications of authors affiliated to different universities of iran. abstracts were reviewed and unrelated articles were omitted. cit...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this survey was to illustrate statistical information about endodontic research published in pubmed index journals from the different universities of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS A PubMed search was performed to retrieve the endodontic publications of authors affiliated to different universities of Iran. Abstracts were reviewed and unrelated articles were omitted. Citat...

OBJECTIVE The number of scientific papers is a conventional metric to measure a country's research performance in a particular area. The aim of this survey was to demonstrate statistical information about orthodontic research published in international and national journals. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pubmed as an international and IranMedex and SID as national databases were searched between1997 ...

Evaluation of scientists working in a specific area of science is necessary, as they may strive for same limited resources, grants and academic promotions. One of the most common and accepted methods of assessing the performance and impact of a scientist is calculating the number of citations for their publications. However, such method suffer from certain shortcomings. It has become more and m...

the number of scientific papers is a conventional metric to measure a country's research performance in a particular area. the aim of this survey was to demonstrate statistical information about orthodontic research published in international and national journals.pubmed as an international and iranmedex and sid as national databases were searched between1997 and 2012. the keyword searching met...

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

the goal of medicine is to prevent harm as hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. has this fact been taken into account in developing medical education curricula in asia? frequency of diseases in asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  it is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to ...