Khanali Javad, Malekpour Mohammad-Reza, Kolahi Ali-Asghar
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2023 Apr 3;37:31. doi: 10.47176/mjiri.37.31. eCollection 2023.
Implementing bibliometric indicators is the most prominent way to quantify the current status of research performance. This study aimed to map out the research performance of Iranian medical academics and universities in 2020 and determine its progress from 2016.
Data were extracted from the Iranian scientometric information database and universities' scientometric information database. Then, the data were analyzed to provide descriptive statistics of bibliometric indicators. Besides, the association between the research productivity of academics or universities with their background characteristics was investigated using Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis, and chi-square tests.
Iranian medical academics had extensive research productivity from 2016 to 2020, leading to 2.5-fold increase in their median number of papers. The research productivity was heterogeneous among the academics, with an H-index ranging from 0 to 98, and a median of 4. The research productivity was different by gender, academic position, general field of study, and academic degree. The class 1 universities had a higher quantity in research performance; however, there was no difference in quality-related indices comprising citations per paper ratio and high impact publication rate (SJR Q1) among different university classes. The median international collaboration rate has followed a growing trend in recent years and was 17% in 2020.
There is a remarkable growth in the research productivity of Iranian academics and universities. Iranian research community historically had rare international research collaborations; however, promising growth is shown in this regard. To maintain the growth in research productivity, the country should increase research and development expenditure, address gender disparities, supply universities that are lagging behind, facilitate further international collaboration, and support national journals to be indexed in the international citation databases.
实施文献计量指标是量化当前研究绩效状况的最突出方式。本研究旨在梳理2020年伊朗医学学术界和大学的研究绩效，并确定其自2016年以来的进展。
数据从伊朗科学计量信息数据库和大学科学计量信息数据库中提取。然后，对数据进行分析以提供文献计量指标的描述性统计。此外，使用曼-惠特尼U检验、克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯检验和卡方检验研究学者或大学的研究生产力与其背景特征之间的关联。
2016年至2020年，伊朗医学学术界的研究生产力广泛，其论文中位数数量增加了2.5倍。学者之间的研究生产力存在异质性，H指数范围为0至98，中位数为4。研究生产力因性别、学术职位、研究的一般领域和学术学位而异。1类大学在研究绩效方面数量更多；然而，不同大学类别之间在与质量相关的指标（包括每篇论文的引用率和高影响力发表率（SJR Q1））方面没有差异。近年来，国际合作率中位数呈增长趋势，2020年为17%。
伊朗学者和大学的研究生产力有显著增长。伊朗研究界历史上国际研究合作较少；然而，在这方面显示出有希望的增长。为保持研究生产力的增长，该国应增加研发支出，解决性别差异，扶持落后的大学，促进进一步的国际合作，并支持国家期刊被国际引文数据库收录。
