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Review
. 2018 Jul;47(7):936-943.

Scientometric Study on Non-communicable Diseases in Iran: A Review Article

Niloofar Peykari  1 , Hassan Hashemi  1 , Gholamreza Asghari  2 , Mohammadhadi Ayazi  3 , Ghasem Janbabaei  4 , Reza Malekzadeh  5 , Alireza Raeisi  6 , Ali Sadrolsadat  7 , Mohsen Asadi-Lari  8 , Aliasghar Farshad  9 , Farshad Farzadfar  10 , Mostafa Ghanei  11 , Ali Akbar Haghdoost  12 , Ramin Heshmat  13 , Hamidreza Jamshidi  14 , Afshin Ostovar  15 , Amirhossein Takian  16 , Bagher Larijani  1
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Scientometric Study on Non-communicable Diseases in Iran: A Review Article

Niloofar Peykari et al. Iran J Public Health. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Background: Non-Communicable disease (NCDs) is a killer of people that needs to urgent actions across the world. Scientific evidence is the critical arm for effective interventions. Therefore, we aimed to quantify the trend of four main NCDs' scientific publication in a 17-yr period, and reflect international collaboration.

Methods: This scientometric study on four main NCDs; cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases were carried out through the narrative review in international databases of Scopus from 2000 to 2016. In this way, the number of articles, citations, and international collaboration were assessed, and the frequently used terms on noncommunicable diseases were mapped by VOSviewer software.

Results: Over the 17 years, 25827 articles about four main NCDs by Iran indexed in Scopus have increasing trend steadily. However, chronic obstructive respiratory publications have slow trend. The number of articles, citations, and h index of cancer-related publications was higher than the others. Diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic respiratory diseases scientometrics indicators state in next positions, respectively. The most collaborative country was USA in the four areas, and there was not seen region countries' collaboration in top ten levels. The frequently used terms in NCDs' articles in order were diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and breast cancer.

Conclusion: Iran provides appropriate face of cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases publications in the mirror of NCDs' scientometry. However, there is need for more effort in chronic respiratory diseases researches, and strengthen collaboration with regional countries.

Keywords: Iran; Non-communicable diseases; Scientometry.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1:
The trend of publications on Four Main NCDs in Iran from 2000 to 2016
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The pattern of four main Non-communicable Diseases’ article types based on Scopus database
Fig. 3:
Fig. 3:
Map of frequent terms in Iranian Non-communicable Diseases articles indexed in Scopus
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