A Survey on Article and Book Publication by Researchers at Zanjan University of Medical Sciences in Web of Science, Pubmed, Scopus and Magiran from 2001 to 2015

Several Studies indicate ascended scientific productivity of Iran in all academic fields including medical sciences universities. The aim of this study was to figure out scientific production by researchers of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences from March 2001 to March 2015.
This research was a descriptive study in which data was collected by searching Web of Science, Medline, Scopus and Magiran databases.
Results indicated that researchers of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences had published 449 articles in ISI, 289 in Pubmed, 773 in Scopus, 764 scientific articles in Magiran and 51 books during 2001-2015. Among all the faculties and research centers, School of Medicine was in the first place regarding article publication indexed in the 4 mentioned databases. Among the findings 94.3% of articles were original and 76.5% of books were compilations. Also, 59.1% of articles were written in English and 61% of articles were published in Iranian journals.
The findings indicated that the status of article and book publication in ZUMS has had an ascending order from 2001 to 2015. The Faculty of Medicine indicated a great share in this regard.