Quantitative analysis of Iranian zoonoses articles in Web of Science database

Nowadays, scientific publications indexed in prestigious databases such as ISI Web of Science (WOS) is one of the important criteria for evaluating and ranking the countries, scientists, research institutes and universities around the world. So, check the status of quantitative scientometric indices of Iranian articles and documents on zoonoses in WOS is the main aim of this research. Scientometric and survey methods have been used. All articles indexed in the ISI Web of Science database during 1971-2012 on zoonoses that at least one of the authors were Iranian, have been analyzed. In total, from 1971 to the end in 2012, 3807 articles in the field of zoonoses from Iranian researchers in the WOS database are indexed. The average annual growth of articles is 38.94. Most papers (85.26%) have been published during 2004- 2012. The most documents are original articles (3110 articles) and in English language (3774 articles). Mahdi Mohebali, Ali Khamesipour and Mohammad Reza Masjedi are the most prolific authors respectively. Respectively, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran University and Islamic Azad University are the most prolific Iranian universities in zoonoses. Papers of zoonoses has risen dramatically in recent years. Most papers are in the fields of public health and environment, parasitology, and infectious diseases. The most prolific authors are affiliated to medical universities of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz and Pasteur Institute of Iran, respectively.