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. 2015 Mar;20(3):253-62.

Diabetes research in Middle East countries; a scientometrics study from 1990 to 2012

Niloofar Peykari  1 , Shirin Djalalinia  1 , Amir Kasaeian  2 , Shohreh Naderimagham  3 , Tahereh Hasannia  3 , Bagher Larijani  4 , Farshad Farzadfar  3
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Diabetes research in Middle East countries; a scientometrics study from 1990 to 2012

Niloofar Peykari et al. J Res Med Sci. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Background: Diabetes burden is a serious warning for urgent action plan across the world. Knowledge production in this context could provide evidences for more efficient interventions. Aimed to that, we quantify the trend of diabetes research outputs of Middle East countries focusing on the scientific publication numbers, citations, and international collaboration.

Materials and methods: This scientometrics study was performed based on the systematic analysis through three international databases; ISI, PubMed, and Scopus from 1990 to 2012. International collaboration of Middle East countries and citations was analyzed based on Scopus. Diabetes' publications in Iran specifically were assessed, and frequent used terms were mapped by VOSviewer software.

Results: Over 23-year period, the number of diabetes publications and related citations in Middle East countries had increasing trend. The number of articles on diabetes in ISI, PubMed, and Scopus were respectively; 13,994, 11,336, and 20,707. Turkey, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have devoted the five top competition positions. In addition, Israel, Turkey, and Iran were leading countries in citation analysis. The most collaborative country with Middle East countries was USA and within the region, the most collaborative country was Saudi Arabia. Iran in all databases stands on third position and produced 12.7% of diabetes publications within region. Regarding diabetes researches, the frequent used terms in Iranian articles were "effect," "woman," and "metabolic syndrome."

Conclusion: Ascending trend of diabetes research outputs in Middle East countries is appreciated but encouraging to strategic planning for maintaining this trend, and more collaboration between researchers is needed to regional health promotion.

Keywords: Diabetes; Middle East; scientometrics.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared.

Figures

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The trend of publications on diabetes in Middle East countries from 1990 to 2012
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Figure 2
The pattern of diabetes’ article types in 2000 and 2012 based on PubMed database
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Figure 3
The trend of citation to diabetes articles in Middle East countries from 1990 to 2012
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Figure 4
The trend of three top rank universities of Iran in diabetes publication adjusted to research budget (a) and academic member (b)
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Figure 5
Map of frequent terms in Iranian diabetes articles indexed in Scopus
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