Assessment and evaluation of scientific Output of Iranian Dental researchers during 2010-2017 in ISC

 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the scientific outputs of Iranian dental researchers in the ISC citation database during the years 2010-2017.

 This research is an applied research that has been done by using co-word analysis which is a kind of content analysis and scientometric methods. The statistical population of the study includes 1383 records in dentistry researches that indexed by Iranian researchers in the ISC during 2010-2017.

 The findings showed that most dental papers were produced by researchers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Researchers in our country have also collaborated with US researchers in their papers. The survey of the most commonly used topics showed that the most focus of our researchers is on dental and oral Health. The topic of dental plaque has also been identified as an underdeveloped topic in the fields.

  According to the findings, it seems, scientific output of dentistry field in was ISC increased during 2010-2017. and Tehran Medical sciences, Shahid Beheshti medical sciences and Islamic azad university were applied as first to third scores.