Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 MSc Student, Medical Library and Information Sciences, Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Paramedicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Information Management Research Department. Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST), Shiraz, Iran
3 PhD Student, Medical Library and Information Sciences, Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan AND Scientometrics Expert, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
4 Assistant Professor, Library and Information Sciences, Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Paramedicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Ideational influence and social influence are among the indicators of scientometrics used to evaluate scientific publications. This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the scientific publications of Iranian researchers in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases indexed in the Scopus citation database.Methods: The present applied study was conducted through the scientometrics indicators of ideational and social influence. This study also employed the social network analysis to depict a co-author network. The statistical population included 6908 Iranian articles in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Scopus database from 2008 to 2017. Bibexcel, Pajek, and Vosviewer were used to analyze the data.Results: Indicators of social influence showed that the average degree of the centrality of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran was 104.084, the average of the betweenness centrality was 0.061, and the average of the closeness centrality was 0.258. Analysis of the data related to the indicators of intellectual influence revealed that the H, G, and HC indices were 85, 62, and 167, respectively.Conclusion: Despite the fact that quality of publications in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran is not acceptable, the number of publications in this field is growing. The level of scientific collaboration is not acceptable as well. Conducting scientometrics studies in various fields of medical sciences using indicators such as ideational influence and social influence, and publicizing the results can make medical scientists aware of the real situation and position of their specialty around the world. Awareness of the results of scientific collaboration studies as well as the researchers’ studies introduces active and productive international scientists in the fields of scientific collaboration and the publication of more useful articles.
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