Research is to investigate and understand the facts and a plan for discovering the unknown truth. Scientific productions and publishing them in scientific journals is one of the major indices of research and science production in the world. Considering the role of journals which have provided proper conditions for production and transfer of knowledge, it is possible to determine the direction of scientific research of medical researchers by reviewing the content of articles published in the health field. The aim of the present study is to determine the compliance of medical research topics with the issues which are known as the major causes of mortality in the world. Methods: In this survey study, the publishing status of papers has been investigated to determine the scientific direction of medical researchers in a year. Ten leading causes of death worldwide announced by the World Health Organization in 2008 were selected. Keywords of mortality factors were determined, then entered in the Mesh medical subject headings and the proposed words were determined. Then, the new keywords were searched in the Pub med database. The obtained data was entered into the SPSS V.15 software and were analyzed using the chi-square test at a significant level of P<0.05. The results showed that the researchers in the field of human health have not considered the issue of mortality as the main priority in their researches. The direction of their studied shows another orientation. Universities were also negligent to achieve their mission which is the resolving of the health problems of people. University-affiliated publications also were not active to reflect the results of scientific research of their faculty members. So that the results of medical researches of faculty members, have mainly been published in the university-nonaffiliated journals. Conclusion: A material incentive is one of the important factors which influence the discrepancies between the studied issues and the community health care needs. The role of scientific journals and their custodians in determining the research priorities is very important. Besides health researches, financial support will help developing the medical sciences. But, these developments should be taking into account the health care needs of people. Otherwise, this notion is found in the community that physicians have been away from their original mission and the sacred medical profession achieved commercialization direction
کلید واژگان :Medical researchers; Medical journals; Mortality factors; University faculties
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