caa a22 4500 445348003 CHVBK 20180317142835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0336-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0336-z Scientometric analysis of the major Iranian medical universities [Elektronische Daten] [Mohammad Abolghassemi Fakhree, Abolghasem Jouyban] Nowadays, scientometrics has become an important field of study to monitor the progresses in scientific performance of a research group, a department, a university etc. A number of scientometrical studies have been done about Iranian scientific outcome in recent years. But there is no comparison between major Iranian medical universities. In this study, by using Scopus as search engine, the scientific outcomes of the Iran University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences have been compared with each other. These universities were compared by the number of published articles per year, number of citations received per year, number of citations received per year per article, total H-indices, top ten authors, and top ten journals. The results of this study show that the order of the studied universities in research performance is as follow: Tehran>Shiraz=Shahid Beheshti>Isfahan=Iran>Tabriz=Mashhad universities of medical sciences. In addition, the data of Tehran University of Medical Sciences as the top medical university of Iran was compared with some of top medical universities around the world. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Iran nationallicence University of Medical Science nationallicence Number of article nationallicence Scientometric nationallicence Abolghassemi Fakhree Mohammad Students Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 51664, Tabriz, Iran aut Jouyban Abolghasem Drug Applied Research Center and Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 51664, Tabriz, Iran aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/1(2011-04-01), 205-220 0138-9130 87:1<205 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0336-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0336-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abolghassemi Fakhree Mohammad Students Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 51664, Tabriz, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jouyban Abolghasem Drug Applied Research Center and Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 51664, Tabriz, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/1(2011-04-01), 205-220 0138-9130 87:1<205 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer