Rasolabadi Masoud, Rasouli-Ghahfarkhi Seyedeh Moloud, Ardalan Marlin, Kalhor Marya Maryam, Seidi Jamal, Gharib Alireza
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Islamic Azad University, Masjed-Soleiman Branch, Masjed-Soleiman, Iran.
Acta Inform Med. 2015 Dec;23(6):374-8. doi: 10.5455/aim.2015.23.374-378.
The aim of this study is to analyze the epilepsy research output of Iran in national and global contexts, as reflected in its publication output indexed in Scopus citation database during 2000-2014.
This study was based on the publications of epilepsy research from Iranian authors retrieved Feb. 2015 from Scopus Citation database [www.scopus.com]. The string used to retrieve the data was developed using "epilepsy OR epilepsies" keywords in title, abstract and keywords and Iran in affiliation field was our main string.
Cumulative publication output of Iran in epilepsy research consisted of 702 papers from 2000 to 2014, with an average number of 46.53 papers per year. The total publication output of Iran in epilepsy research increased from 2 papers in 2000 to 88 papers in 2014. Hence, with 702 paper, Iran ranked 25(th) among the top 25 countries with a global share of 0.82 %. Iranian publication average citation per paper increased from 0 in 2000 to 7.88 in 2014. Overall, the received citations were 3184 citations during those years.
Iran is collaborating with 36 countries with no more than 244 of its papers (35% of its total papers). It is necessary to prepare conditions for epilepsy researchers to collaborate more with international scientific societies in order to produce more and high quality papers.
本研究旨在分析伊朗在国内和全球范围内的癫痫研究成果，这体现在2000 - 2014年期间被Scopus引文数据库收录的出版物产出中。
本研究基于2015年2月从Scopus引文数据库[www.scopus.com]检索到的伊朗作者的癫痫研究出版物。用于检索数据的字符串是通过在标题、摘要和关键词中使用“癫痫或癫痫症”关键词，并将伊朗作为所属机构字段的主要字符串来构建的。
2000年至2014年伊朗癫痫研究的累积出版物产出包括702篇论文，平均每年46.53篇。伊朗癫痫研究的总出版物产出从2000年的2篇增加到2014年的88篇。因此，伊朗以702篇论文在全球排名前25的国家中位列第25，全球占比0.82%。伊朗出版物的平均每篇论文被引次数从2000年的0次增加到2014年的7.88次。总体而言，这些年共获得3184次引用。
伊朗与36个国家合作，其论文数量不超过244篇（占其总论文数的35%）。有必要为癫痫研究人员创造条件，使其更多地与国际科学团体合作，以产出更多高质量的论文。
