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. 2014 Jan;11(1):e5050.
doi: 10.5812/iranjradiol.5050. Epub 2014 Jan 30.

Quantitative evaluation of Iranian radiology papers and its comparison with selected countries

Mahyar Ghafoori  1 , Hasan Emami  2 , Abdolrasoul Sedaghat  3 , Mohammad Ghiasi  4 , Madjid Shakiba  5 , Manijeh Alavi  6
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Quantitative evaluation of Iranian radiology papers and its comparison with selected countries

Mahyar Ghafoori et al. Iran J Radiol. 2014 Jan.

Abstract

Background: Recent technological developments in medicine, including modern radiology have promoted the impact of scientific researches on social life. The scientific outputs such as article and patents are products that show the scientists' attempt to access these achievements.

Objectives: In the current study, we evaluate the current situation of Iranian scientists in the field of radiology and compare it with the selected countries in terms of scientific papers. For this purpose, we used scientometric tools to quantitatively assess the scientific papers in the field of radiology.

Materials and methods: Radiology papers were evaluated in the context of medical field audit using retrospective model. We used the related databases of biomedical sciences for extraction of articles related to radiology. In the next step, the situation of radiology scientific products of the country were determined with respect to the under study regional countries.

Results: Results of the current study showed a ratio of 0.19% for Iranian papers in PubMed database published in 2009. In addition, in 2009, Iranian papers constituted 0.29% of the Scopus scientific database. The proportion of Iranian papers in the understudy region was 7.6%.

Conclusion: To diminish the gap between Iranian scientific radiology papers and other competitor countries in the region and achievement of document 2025 goals, multifold effort of the society of radiology is necessary.

Keywords: Geographic Locations; Radiology; Societies, Scientific.

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