Drawing the scientific map of Islamic Azad University Medical Sciences products in Web of Science site

The aim of this research was to analyze and illustrate scientific productions of Islamic Azad University researchers under title of Medical Sciences in Web of Science (WOS) data base.

The present study was a kind of applied scientific research which studied the quantitative performance of Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences in WOS database from beginning to 2018. Statistical population of this study was all scientific productions of Medical Sciences of Islamic Azad University (11155 records) in WOS database.

The first scientific output of medical sciences of Islamic Azad University was indexed in 1996 and the highest number of indexed output was in 2016. Kazem Parivar has been ranked the first among all researches and had the highest scientific collaboration was with the USA academic centers. The journal "African Journal of Biotechnology" was also recognized as the source of the medical science core of the Islamic Azad University on the Web of Science. The most frequently use key word was "Iran" and key words "Pharmaceutical Chemistry" and "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" had the most frequent synonyms. Finally, the keywords of Islamic Azad University's scientific productions in medical sciencesweare divided into 7 general clusters.

The results of this study indicate that Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences researchers have been able to obtain the third rank among the medical universities of Iran with a good effort. But they have not used their potential to recognize Iran's progress in controlling the spread of communicable diseases worldwide.