Akhondzadeh Shahin, Ebadifar Asghar, Baradaran Eftekhari Monir, Falahat Katayoun
Deputy for Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Arch Iran Med. 2017 Nov 1;20(11):665-672.
During the last 3 decades, Iran has experienced a rapid population growth and at the same time the health of Iranian people has improved greatly. This achievement was mainly due to training and availability of health manpower, well organized public health network and medical science and research improvement. In this article, we aimed to report the relevant data about the medical science and research situation in Iran and compare them with other countries.
In this study, after reviewing science development and research indicators in medical sciences with participation of key stakeholders, we selected 3 main hybrid indexes consisting of "Research and Development (R&D) expenditures," "Personnel in Science and Technology sector" and "knowledge generation" for evaluation of medical science and research situation. Data was extracted from reliable databases.
Over the past decade, Iran has achieved significant success in medical sciences and for the first time in 2015 based on Scopus index, Iran ranked first in the number of published scientific papers and number of citations in the region and among all Islamic countries. Also, 2% of the world's publications belong to Iran. Regarding innovation, the number of Iranian patents submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) was 3 and 43 in 2008 and 2013, respectively. In these years, the number of personnel in science and technology sectors including post graduate students, researchers and academic members in universities of medical sciences (UMSs) have increased. The female students in medical sciences field account for about twothirds of all students. Also, women comprise about one-third of faculty members. Since 5 years ago, Iran has had growth in science and technology parks. These achievements were attained in spite of the fact that research spending in Iran was still very low (0.5% of gross domestic product [GDP]) due to economic hardships and sanctions.
Medical science and research development has been at least partially due to health technological development, training and availability of health manpower and improvement of overall health status in Iran compared to other Islamic countries.
在过去三十年中，伊朗经历了人口的快速增长，与此同时，伊朗人民的健康状况有了很大改善。这一成就主要归功于卫生人力的培训与可得性、组织完善的公共卫生网络以及医学科学与研究的进步。在本文中，我们旨在报告伊朗医学科学与研究状况的相关数据，并将其与其他国家进行比较。
在本研究中，在关键利益相关者参与审查医学科学的科学发展和研究指标后，我们选择了3个主要的综合指标，包括“研究与开发（R&D）支出”、“科技领域人员”和“知识创造”，以评估医学科学与研究状况。数据从可靠的数据库中提取。
在过去十年中，伊朗在医学科学领域取得了显著成功，2015年，基于Scopus指数，伊朗首次在该地区以及所有伊斯兰国家中，在发表的科学论文数量和被引用次数方面排名第一。此外，全球2%的出版物来自伊朗。在创新方面，2008年和2013年提交给美国专利商标局（USPTO）的伊朗专利数量分别为3项和43项。这些年里，包括研究生、研究人员和医学科学大学（UMSs）学术成员在内的科技领域人员数量有所增加。医学科学领域的女学生约占所有学生的三分之二。此外，女性约占教职员工的三分之一。自五年前以来，伊朗的科技园区不断发展。尽管由于经济困难和制裁，伊朗的研究支出仍然非常低（占国内生产总值[GDP]的0.5%），但仍取得了这些成就。
与其他伊斯兰国家相比，伊朗医学科学与研究的发展至少部分归功于卫生技术的发展、卫生人力的培训与可得性以及整体健康状况的改善。
