The current study analyzes quality and quantity of scientific
productions originated by Iranian medical sciences Universities during
1999-2008.
All raw data was extracted from the database of Web of Science during
1999-2008. The findings of study showed that the number of scientific
productions emanated by Iranian Medical Sciences Universities has
increased through the study period. The number of scientific productions
increased from 259 documents in 1999 into 15852 documents in 2008, an
increase of greater than 60 times. Articles were the most frequent
document type indexed in the WoS. English language was the dominant
language of publications. Pharmacology and pharmacy have been the most
interesting subject area for researchers in theses universities. Despite
fluctuations in the number of received citations in scientific produc
and H- index of these universities during study period, the number of self
citations has increased significantly, but in terms of citation average per
paper, a descending order was observed during the study decade.