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

Background: Along with the prospers of scientific production, there is a need for the measurement and evaluation of university’s scientific productions, using accepted international indices, to make comparisons between academic institutions. The present study aims to evaluate the scientific production of faculty members affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran (SBMU) in the Web of Science from 2011 to 2014. Methods: Faculty members of SBMU were selected based on the last updated list of faculty members extracted from the university s Human Resources Management. The evaluation criteria were total number of the articles, total number of the articles between 2011-2014, total article’s citations, total article’s citations between 2011-14, and H Index extracted from the Web of Science webpage. Results: Totally, 1300 faculty members were evaluated in the study. Scientific productions had an increasing trend from 2011 to 2014. There had been 6445 article person and 41120 citations with a Mean (SD) of 4.96 (1.22) article participation and 31.63 (122.5) citations to articles which each faculty member had participated in. The mean (SD) H-index of the faculty members was 2.2 (3.2) with the highest faculty member’s H-index for the School of Pharmacy with the score 4.9 (3.9). Conclusion: There has been an increasing trend in the scientific production of SBMU in the Web of Science data base. As Iran is among the first three high ranked countries in Western Asia based on scientometric indices, monitoring of scientific production by yearly intervals seems necessary.