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Iranian Medical Universities in SCIE: evaluation of address variation

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  • Farzaneh Aminpour

    (Iran University of Medical Sciences
    Isfahan University of Medical Sciences)

  • Payam Kabiri

    (Tehran University of Medical Sciences)

  • Mohammad Ali Boroumand

    (Isfahan University of Medical Sciences)

  • Abbas Ali Keshtkar

    (Golestan University of Medical Sciences
    Golestan University of Medical Sciences)

  • Seyed Shamsoddin Hejazi

    (Qom University of Medical Sciences)

Abstract

Applying different institutional addresses in the scientific production of a same university has underestimated the scientific production of Iranian universities and consequently lowered their position in the international academic rankings for a long time. The present study evaluated the scientific production of Iranian medical universities according to their institutional addresses registered in the papers indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). By conducting a descriptive research we retrieved total SCIE indexed of top Iranian medical universities and their respective hospitals and research centers from the beginning of 1986 to the end of 2007. Then different variations of the institutional addresses of each university in the author affiliation of papers were assessed. Finally the universities were ranked according to observing a uniformed format for more registered addresses in SCIE. The findings showed unexpected diversity in the institutional affiliation of each university in their SCIE indexed papers. Although “Tehran University of Medical Sciences” showed the most variation in registering institutional addresses but ranked first according to observing unification for more addresses in the SCIE indexed papers comparing to the other universities. The problem of applying different institutional affiliations in the scientific production of the universities should be valued enough by the whole scientific community. Observing a uniformed format in registering institutional addresses of Iranian medical universities would affect their scientific credibility and international ranks through representing their real scientific productivity.

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  • Farzaneh Aminpour & Payam Kabiri & Mohammad Ali Boroumand & Abbas Ali Keshtkar & Seyed Shamsoddin Hejazi, 2010. "Iranian Medical Universities in SCIE: evaluation of address variation," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 85(1), pages 53-63, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:85:y:2010:i:1:d:10.1007_s11192-010-0248-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0248-y
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