Patterns of Article Publication and Citation Behavior of the Faculties of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences

Determining the patterns of article publication and citation behavior of the faculties of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences is aimed in this study. 179 articles which were published in the period time of July 2008 to June 2010 with cooperation of at least one of the faculties of the University are studied with Scientometrics and citation analysis methods. 66.3% of people who cooperated in compiling articles are assistant professors and 64.3% of them are men. 66.2% of them are employed in the faculty of Medicine. 15.6% of articles are indexed in ISI. 86% of them are researches and 2.8% of them are reviews. 16.9% of English articles are published in the Elsevier's journals. 86.2% of citations are related to journal's articles and 92.8% of them are in English. Half-time of citations is determined 9 years. 56.8% of faculties of the University are not cooperated in compiling any article in the study's period time, the share of cooperation of women, associate professors and instructors, and employees of faculties of Nursing & Midwifery, Health & Allied Medicine, and Dentistry is below the expected value; so these actions are necessary to consider: 1) determining the causes of low cooperation of the mentioned groups and creating and promoting necessary motivations in them; 2) training what is ISI and why the publishing of articles in it is necessary; 3) training faculties to write reviews; and 4) subscription of at least a nine years period of English journals.