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Published on: October 24, 2019
The Relation between Iranian Medical Science Research in PubMed and Burden of Disease
Zahra Foroughi1, Hasan Siamian2, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei3
1Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
Introduction:
Scientific productions have been accelerated in Iran in past decades but its association with health problems and disease burden is doubtful. The aim of this study is assessment of the relationship between scientific productions with disease burden in Iran in PubMed dataset during 2010 to 2014.
Method:
The study was performed with the library method. Data Gathered using Scientometrics indicators and direct observation. The current research includes all articles written by Iranian researchers during 2010 to 2014 which were published in PubMed-indexed journals. The search was performed using keywords included road accident, ischaemic heart diseases, major depression disorders and cerebral vascular diseases.
Results:
In total 910 articles had been published PubMed -indexed journals. Among them Substance-Related Disorders and Accidents, Traffic had the highest (263 records) and lowest (94 records) records respectively. There was not a direct correlation between Years of Life Lost, Years Lost due to Disability and mortality rate with scientific productions.
Conclusions:
our results showed Iranian scientific productions in PubMed data set are not related to disease burden however they are not related to high mortality diseases.
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