Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Library and Information Sciences, Department of Humanities, school of librarianship, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 MSc, Library and Information Sciences, Department of Humanities, School of librarianship, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Due to it’s close relationship with the health care and biomedical engineering position in society and Iran,s Position in the world in this field of science, This study compares the world scientific outputs and scientific cooperation in biomedical engineering in the Science Citation Index, between the years 2002-2011. Methods: Research method is analytical in which scientometric indicators in analysis of co-authorship are used. Research society consisted of 12044 research and academic outputs in biomedical engineering which are indexed in the Science Citation Index during 2002 - 2011. To extract data, we used from version 5/7 Web of Science database and counting and data analysis was performed using Excel software. Results: America (4427), China (990), Germany (869), Canada (818) and England (754), held the most biomedical engineering outputs. The most sub-subject area belonged to materials science (5896), biophysics (1904), and sport science (863).The trend for top subject areas was the cooperation of more than four authors. America (1207), Germany (484), England (478), China (341), and Canada (335), had the most share of cooperation, in scientific documents of biomedical engineering. Elsevier, Wiley-liss, Springer and IEEE were the most active publishers. Top world authors were from America, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The documents with 4 (2268) and 3 authors (2190) exceeded other co-authored documents. Top world research centers consisted of: Calliff System University (America), Montreal University (Canada), Harvard University (America) and Toronto University (Canada). From among 90 countries, Iran (55 records) holds 28th world rank and the third rank in South West Asian countries. Conclusion: No significant relationship was found between the number of co-authors, number of scientific works of the authors and citation absorption. The countries had the more collaboration with other countries were the most productive ones. So there were the direct relationship between the scientific collaborations and the rate of scientific outputs. For the reason that biomedical engineering has the interdisciplinary nature itself, numerious scientific groups specialists are required and the rate of scientific collaborations of this field is daily exceeding. Finally, it may be asserted that the growth of team cooperation and products of researchers of biomedical engineering in the world is ascending and Scientific ideals of our country, seriously require professionals and the government supports and programs. Keywords: Databases; Biomedical Engineering; Cooperative Behavior; Output; Web of Science.
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