Background . In the scientometric, the main criterion in determining the scientific position and ranking of the scientific centers, particularly the universities, is the rate of scientific production and innovation, and in all participations in the global scientific development. One of the subjects more involved in repeatedly dealt with science and technology and effective on the improvement of health is medical science fields. In this research using scientometric and citation analysis, we studied the rate of scientific productions in the field of community medicine, which is the numbers of articles published and indexed in ISI database from 2000 to 2010. Methods: This study is scientometric using the survey and analytical citation. The study samples included all of the articles in the ISI database from 2000 to 2010. For the data collection, the advance method of searching was used at the ISI database. The ISI analyses software and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Results: Results showed that among the five top universities in producing documents, Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 88 (22.22%) documents is allocated to the first rank of scientific products. M. Askarian with 36 (90/9%) published documents; most of the scientific outputs in Community medicine, in the international arena is the most active author in this field. In collaboration with other writers, Iranian departments of Community Medicine with 27 published articles have the greatest participation with scholars of English authors. In the process of scientific outputs, the results showed that the scientific process was in its lowest in the years 2000 to 2004, and while the department of Community medicine in 2009 allocated most of the production process to itself. Iranian Journal of Public Health and Saudi Medical Journal each of them had 16 articles which had most participation rate in the publishing of community medicine’s department. On the type of carrier, community medicine’s department by presentation of 340(85.86%) articles had presented most of their scientific productions in the format of article, also in the field of community medicine outputs, article entitled: "Iron loading and erythrophagocytosis increase ferroportin 1 (FPN1) expression in J774 macrophages"(1) with 81 citations ranked first in cited articles. Subject areas of occupational health with 70 articles and subject areas of general medicine with 69 articles ranked the most active research areas in the Production of community medicine’s department. Conclusion: the obtained data showed the much growth of scientific production. The Tehran University of medical Sciences ranked the first in publishing articles in community medicine’s department and with most collaboration with community medicine department of England writers in this field and most writers will present their works in paper format.
کلید واژگان :Keywords: Scientometric, Scientific Production, Community Medicine Department, ISI
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