Shabestani Monfared Ali, Bijani Ali, Tahmasbi Khadijeh, Yaminfirooz Mousa
Cancer Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Caspian J Intern Med. 2022 Summer;13(3):490-497. doi: 10.22088/cjim.13.3.490.
Considering the importance of internal medicine and the lack of sufficient scientometric data on the research status of the field in Iran, the study aimed at investigating the state of scientific output in the country compared to the countries in the world.
This applied research used a scientometric approach. The related -driven terms in "internal medicine" were selected as search phrases and searched in the SCImago database. SPSS and Excel software packages were used for statistical analysis. Geographical mapping was done with Google Maps for depicting country geographical distribution.
Out of all 4,972,258 papers published by 230 countries worldwide in the field, about 60% belonged to the USA and Western European countries. These countries were at top of citation and self-citation counts as well as the h-index indicator. The citations per paper indicator were 27.1 and about 25.1% of total citations were self-citations. A significant positive correlation was found between the number of papers, citation count, and self-citation rate, and h-index in the field (p<0.001).
The research status of internal medicine in developed regions and countries was quantitatively and qualitatively better than that of developing countries, including Iran.
鉴于内科医学的重要性以及伊朗该领域研究现状缺乏足够的科学计量数据，本研究旨在调查该国与世界各国相比的科学产出状况。
本应用研究采用科学计量方法。选择“内科医学”相关驱动词作为检索短语，在Scimago数据库中进行检索。使用SPSS和Excel软件包进行统计分析。利用谷歌地图进行地理映射以描绘国家地理分布。
在全球230个国家发表的该领域所有4972258篇论文中，约60%属于美国和西欧国家。这些国家在被引频次、自引频次以及h指数指标方面位居前列。每篇论文的被引频次指标为27.1，约25.1%的总被引频次为自引。该领域的论文数量、被引频次、自引率和h指数之间存在显著正相关（p<0.001）。
发达地区和国家内科医学的研究现状在数量和质量上均优于包括伊朗在内的发展中国家。
