Journal of Modern Medical

Introduction :In recent years, there is a growing trend in Iranian medical journals in terms of numbers. In order to be able to be included in international indexing databases, these journals should comply with the required criteria of these databases. So, the aim of this study was to determine the adaptation of Iranian medical journals with the structural criteria of PubMed central journal selection standards.

Methods: The current study is a descriptive- applied one. The statistical population was all of the medical journals approved by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (n=252). The data collection tool was the check list of structural criteria extracted from document of Pub Med central journal selection criteria. The data analysis was performed using SPSS20 through descriptive statistics methods.

Results: The results revealed that 98 journals (% 38.5), are published in English. It was found that 29 journals (% 11.5) do not have any XML file. 157 Journals (%62.3) have complied with the International Standard Serial Number in XML file. Only 41 journals (%16.3) had mentioned the name of the publisher in the XML file. Overall compliance of the journals with the structural items of PubMed Central journal selection criteria was 65.7 percent.

Conclusion: Although, the Iranian medical journals compliance with most of the structural criteria of PubMed Central journal selection policy showed to be in a satisfactory condition, but the majority of journals are not published in English language, which is a serious obstacle in indexing in PubMed central. Therefore only a small number of journals has a chance to be indexed in this database.

Introduction: The subject area of Pharmacy and Pharmacology is the most productive medical subject area. The present study intends to investigate the scientific production of the Pharmacology and Pharmacy in Web of Science in 2003 to 2012 and identify the number of publications, the average number of received citations, the most productive researchers and organizations as well as the citation clusters in this area.

Methods: In this research that performed with scientometrics approach, research society, all articles related to the pharmacology and pharmacy field in 2003 to 2012 indexed in Science Citation Index database that collected from Web of Science Database in 12 November 2013 and were analyzed by HisteCite software.

Results: All articles related to the pharmacology and pharmacy field in 2003 and 2012 are 5209 documents and this productions has upside. Abbas Shafie ranked first in terms of the number of the production and the number of received citations. The most productive five authors in the field of the Pharmacy and Pharmacology are owned by the Tehran University of the Medical Sciences. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences ranks first to three in terms of the number of the scientific production. The England with 181 document and 27% of the documents have been the most cooperation with Iranian researchers.

Conclusion: The scientific production of the pharmacology and pharmacy field during the years 2003 to 2012 has had a substantial growth but the average citations per article is not so much and to increase the quality of the articles instead of the increase of the quantity of these should be planning.