Citation analysis of textbooks at amazon web site in terms of citing articles produced by faculty members of schools of pharmacy in medical sciences universities

Based on the fact that knowledge is not limited and scientific Exchanges help researchers to pursuit of new findings, this study aimed to determine citation rates of medical articles and books by faculty members of schools of Pharmacy in type 1 Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran, in text books at Amazon website, during 2000 to 2011.

This study was done using Citation analysis, a method performed by Scientometrics techniques. The study Population included 372 Text books indexed on Amazon website that have been published between 2000 to 2011. These books reference have been studied due to the citation to the scientific production of faculty members of school of pharmacy of Iranian universities type 1. Google Book search, a part of the Google search engine, was used as the data collection tool. Data analysis was done using (SPSS), version 18

Citations to medical articles by schools of Pharmacy in type 1 Universities of Medical Sciences during the study period had an ascending trend, in which Tehran school of pharmacy (37.19) percent and Ahvaz school of pharmacy (1.03) percent had the highest and lowest growth, respectively. Most cited articles were original papers (89.6) percent and case reports ranked last with zero percent. Most cited articles were written by three authors (89.96) percent.

The findings suggest that cooperation is the factor influencing to level of quality scientific papers and citations at the international level.