Contribution Rate of Authors in Producing Scientific Papers in Journal of Health Information Management during 2004-2011

The present study aimed to determine the contribution rate among authors who published articles in Journal of Health Information Management during 2004-2011. This was a descriptive-scientometrics study with a statistical procedure. The population of this study included the total issues of the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM) articles which have been published during 2004-2011. The results showed that 789 authors had published articles in JHIM and mean number of the authors per article was 3. 03. In terms of gender، 56% of the authors were males and 44% were females. Findings indicated that Isfahan University of Medical Sciences، Iran is most prolific among the other research institutes and scientific centers; furthermore this university has the most grouping published articles among the other research institutes and scientific centers (with 94 articles). Only 8. 7% of the articles had single author. The results highlighted that the contribution coefficient was 0. 64. Contribution rate of the authors in JHIM is in an acceptable level.