A Study of the Extent and Factors Influencing the Participation of the Faculty Members of the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in Scientific production.

This research examined the participation of Kerman University of Medical Sciences faculty members in scientific production and studied the effective factors based on ISI database and a questionnaire. In the first part of the study the list of academic staffs in KUMS searched through the Web of Science in order to find how many of the staff published papers on ISI Journals. In the second part of the study a questionnaire was sent to academic staff who published an ISI paper from 2000 to 2007.Findings showed that about 74 faculty members in Kerman medical university published around 153 ISI papers between 2000 and 2007. The greatest number of the papers were published in 2007 with 48 titles and the least numbers were published in 2000 with 3 titles. The results showed that the medical faculty members were very active among other faculty members in KUMS with 97 papers and their papers were cited more than 252 times by other researchers. The results also showed that the ability to use English language and research methodology had effects on faculty members to publish more papers in ISI journals.