IRAN'S BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES' RESEARCH OUTPUT IN 2003: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF MEDLINE AND EXCERPTA MEDICA DATABASES

摘要

Iran has been successful in its agenda to improve its international profile in biomedical sciences' by constantly increasing the quantity and quality of articles published in peer-reviewed biomedical journals that are indexed by either Medline or Excerpta Medica databases (EMBASE).Any article that is indexed by these two major bibliographic databases can be accessed and cited by a wider range of scientists and clinicians across the globe and would provide more recognition, scientific credentials, and continuous research funding for the scientists involved and/or the departments supporting those researches.