Ouchi Ali, Ebrahimi Fezzeh, Nemati Anaraki Leila, Hoseini Ahangari Seyed Abedin, Ansari Nasim
Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Paramedicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
ARYA Atheroscler. 2024 Mar-Apr;20(2):17-30. doi: 10.48305/arya.2024.42080.2918.
The present study was conducted to investigate the scientific contributions of Iranians in the field of cardiovascular research, as indexed in the Scopus database, using bibliometric and altmetric methods.
This applied study was conducted with a scientometric approach, utilizing bibliometric and altmetric indicators. The research population consisted of the scientific works of Iranian researchers in the field of cardiovascular diseases, indexed in the Scopus database over a period of 47 years. For bibliometric analysis and the generation of co-citation, co-occurrence, and co-authorship maps, the authors employed VOS Viewer software and the bibliometrix package in the R programming language. In the final stage, articles mentioned on social media were analyzed and evaluated using an altmetric approach.
The results indicated that the commencement point for the publication of documents was 1975, and there has been a steep increase in recent years. Moreover, the documents were primarily research articles out of 6853 retrieved documents, and a limited number of documents were single-authored. Other findings also revealed the co-authorship map of authors and the co-occurrence of words, highly cited authors and institutions, and highly frequent keywords, signifying the scientific collaboration of Iranian researchers with the United States and England. Altmetric analysis also demonstrated that 43.41% of documents were shared at least once on social media and had an Altmetric Attention score. Furthermore, the analysis of altmetric indices showed that Mendeley, Twitter, and News had the highest share of document mentions on social media, respectively.
The findings of the study can offer valuable information to researchers, managers, and policy makers to become aware of the current state of research in the field of cardiovascular diseases and implement the necessary policies to inform society and enhance public health status.
本研究旨在利用文献计量学和替代计量学方法，调查伊朗人在心血管研究领域的科学贡献，这些贡献以Scopus数据库为索引。
本应用研究采用科学计量学方法，利用文献计量学和替代计量学指标。研究总体包括Scopus数据库中索引的47年间伊朗研究人员在心血管疾病领域的科学著作。为了进行文献计量分析以及生成共被引、共现和共同作者图谱，作者使用了VOS Viewer软件和R编程语言中的bibliometrix包。在最后阶段，使用替代计量学方法对社交媒体上提及的文章进行分析和评估。
结果表明，文献发表的起始点为1975年，近年来呈急剧上升趋势。此外，在检索到的6853篇文献中，主要是研究论文，单篇作者的文献数量有限。其他发现还揭示了作者的共同作者图谱、词语共现情况、高被引作者和机构以及高频关键词，这表明伊朗研究人员与美国和英国存在科学合作。替代计量学分析还表明，43.41%的文献至少在社交媒体上被分享过一次，并具有替代计量学关注度得分。此外，对替代计量学指标的分析表明，Mendeley、Twitter和新闻在社交媒体上提及文献的份额分别最高。
该研究结果可为研究人员、管理人员和政策制定者提供有价值的信息，使其了解心血管疾病领域的当前研究状况，并实施必要政策以向社会宣传并提高公众健康状况。
