Goals and Responsibilities

Scientometrics Goals

1. Assessing scientometrics of scientific productions of the university to recognize their influential factors and comparing them with corresponding universities of medical sciences

2. Evaluating h index of the university and identification of articles that increase the university index by increasing their number of citations

3.Recognizing and introducing highly cited articles of the university and review and introduction of factors affecting the citation of articles 

4.Informing the advances in the medical sciences of Iran based on scientometrics indexes

5. Assessing and informing the diversity of giving the address of articles and monitoring the same and standard address in scientific productions of the university

6. Informing the advances of the university based on scientometrics indexes

7. Defining the scientometrics advantages for professors and researchers working in the university and introducing the top individuals

8. Presenting documented reports on scientific and research states of the university and introducing the top researchers with a significant improvement to the scientometrics unit of the vice-chancellor for research and technology of the ministry of health to be awarded and introduced at the national level

9. Recognizing the factors affecting the research output of faculty members to present necessary strategies to improve the research output and eliminate the current problems and barriers

10. Constantly reporting the current status, level of growth and factors affecting the research output to the research vice-chancellor of the university

Duties of Scientometrics

1. Monitoring and supervising the affairs of scientometrics unit

2. monitoring the scientometrics portal

3. Informing scientometrics news

4. Preparing periodic reports, holding workshops and validating journals

5. Preparing reports on highly cited articles

6. Compiling and assessing operational programs of the scientometrics unit

7. Managing and completing the scientometrics system of the university