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Identifying The core journals can help libraries to identify the actual needs of users, improve the process of providing needed resources, eliminate unnecessary issues, and optimize allocation of funds. So, the purpose of this study is to identify core journals by examining the references of the scientific productions of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Web of Science and Scopus (2017), and examine the status of their access and quality.

The research was citation analysis and The Bradford law of scattering was used to determine the core journals. The population of the study is citations in 3961 indexed articles of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Web of Science and Scopus. The status of access to the core journals was determined using the website provided by the Ministry of Health for this purpose and to determine the quality of journals, Q index was used using Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Out of 10155 Cited Journals in the scientific productions of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, 104 titles were identified as core journals. Checking the status of access and quality of core journals showed that 69.2% of the journals are accessible through the Journals Subscribed by the academic consortium of the Ministry of Health and 93.3% of core journals are indexed in ISI.

Considering the provision of two-thirds of the core journals through the Scientific Resource Consortium, It seems that the practitioners of the selection and provision of journals in the Ministry of Health have been doing well.Also,  93.3% of the core journals are listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and this shows that researchers at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences use Credible journals in their compilations.

Pediatrics assistants should have the same training program. Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences has seven training hospital, however, there are no similar specialized departments in all of these hospitals. Therefore, it is necessary to develop identical rotational style in order to train assistants according curriculum. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the pediatrics assistants' skills scores in clinic, before and after the executive rotational style.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in two successive steps in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. In the first step, the rotational guideline was developed by the specialists and used for pediatrics assistants since 2015. The second step was carried out in 2017. In this phase, the effect of the implementation of the guideline was investigated by a researcher-made questionnaire. Eighty-four questionnaires were distributed among the pediatrics assistants of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Sixty-nine assistants fulfilled the questionnaires. Thirty-eight assistants have been trained by the rotational program and, 31 assistants have been trained by the old one. Data were collected from questionnaires, and analyzed using Spss software version 16. 0.

The mean and standard deviation of the clinical skills scores were higher in rotational group of assistants, camper with the others especially in wards of neonatal, nephrology, emergency, infectious, gastroenterology, lung, heart, rheumatology, hematology, and oncology. The rotational group assistants earned lower clinical skills scores than the others in endocrinology (3. 7±1. 5) and asthma and allergy (4. 3±2. 1) departments.

the findings indicated that the implementation of rotational style in Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences had a positive effect on the pediatrics assistants' clinical skills improvement.