AU - Riahi, Aref AU - Sohbatiha, Fariba TI - Visualization of scientific products and journals at the global level: Casting a glance at Islamic Republic of Iran PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - hums-jmis JN - hums-jmis VO - 1 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://jmis.hums.ac.ir/article-1-52-en.html 4100 - http://jmis.hums.ac.ir/article-1-52-en.pdf SO - hums-jmis 2 ABĀ  - Introduction: Scientific production in each country is indicative of its development and the scientific journals are considered one of the efficient tools for scientific communication and primary characteristics of a social system development. The present research intends to visualize the distribution of scientific journals and documents in the field of medicine indexed in Scopus database during the years 1996-2012 as well as determining Iran’s position in this field. Methods: This is an analytic descriptive study in which all published documents in the field of medicine are investigated via the output of Scopus database during the years 1996-2012. SPSS and Node XL software were used to analyze data and to draw graphs. Results: Findings showed that ten countries produced about 70% of the scientific documents in the field of medicine. Furthermore, just 86 countries had indexed journals in Scopus the majority of which (65%) were published by developed countries. Findings showed that the most cited documents were published by developed countries including US, UK and Canada. Conclusion: Scientific products and journals in the field of medicine have experienced an upward trend in Scopus and this was followed by a rapid increase in recent years. There was a significant relationship between the number of documents and citations. CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - hums-jmis PG - 1 PT - Research YR - 2015