Scientific production of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Scopus between 2011-2014

Background: Scientometric evaluations can help universities to monitor their achievements and assess the effect of policy changes and investments in the field knowledge development. The current study aimed to evaluate the scientific production of the faculty members affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, in Scopus database between 2011- 2014. Methods: Faculty members of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, participated in the present study. All the faculty members were recruited in the study based on the names and their affiliation in the Human Resources Management database of the university. Scopus online webpage was the source of extracting the total number of the articles, total article citations, and H Index between 2011-2014. Results: Information obtained from 1299 faculty members, including 165 (12.7%) full professors, 335 (25.8%) associate professors, 656 (50.5%) assistant professors, and 112 (8.7%) instructors, were included in the study. The findings of current study showed that each faculty member averagely contributed 14 articles and there have been 95 citations, on average, to the articles. The mean H index for the university was 3.1±3.90. Also, 20% percent of faculty members had no article published during the last 4 years and 10% had no article at all in Scopus database. Conclusion: The current study illustrated a general image of the articles affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, which were indexed at Scopus database from 2011-2014. The results showed that the scientific production of the university has had a significant growth during these years.