Scientific production of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Web of Science between 2011-2014

• Main Authors: Narges Malih, Mohammad-Reza Sohrabi, Reza Vafaee, Zahra HajiHashemi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016-02-01
• Series: Social Determinants of Health
• Online Access: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/sdh/article/view/16059

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Along with the prospers of scientific production there is a need for measuring and evaluation of university’ s scientific productions by means of accepted international indices to make comparison between academic institutions. This study aims to evaluate the scientific production of faculty members affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMUS) in Web of Science from 2011 to 2014.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. Faculty members of Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences from last updated list of faculty members based on human source management of the university was evaluated. The evaluation criteria was total number of the articles, total number of the articles between 2011-2014, total article’s citations, total article’s citations between 2011-2014 and H Index was extracted from the Web of Science webpage. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Results:</strong></p><p>Totally 1300 faculty members had been evaluated in the study. Scientific productions had an increasing trend from 2011 to 2014. There had been 6445 articles and 41120 citations with a Mean (SD) of 4.96 (1.22) and 31.63 (122.5) respectively. Mean H Index of the university was 2.2. School of Pharmacy had the highest H Index score (4.9).<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong></p><p>There has been an increasing trend in scientific production of SBMUS in Web of Science data base. As Iran is between the first three high ranked countries in the Middle East in based scientometric indices, monitoring of scientific production by yearly intervals seems necessary.</p><p><strong>Keywords: <a title="MeSH Browser: Cross-Sectional Studies" href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2016/MB_cgi?term=Cross-Sectional%20Studies" target="MeSH_Browser">Cross-Sectional Studies</a>; Faculty; Universities</strong></p>