Present situation of scientific productions of Iranian researchers in parasitology domain in ISI databases

In the present decade, the term ‘scientific production’ was considered as one of the important topics. The aim of this study was to investigate international present situation of scientific productions of Iranian's researchers in parasitology field. This scientometric study was conducted using bibliographic records from the ISI databases restricted to a periodic domain during 1980-2009 regarding scientific productions of Iran in parasitology domain. Out of 72,229 articles written by Iranian authors during 1980-2009, a total of 392 articles (0.54 %) were in the domain of parasitology. Some of these articles are due to collaborative works and some of them are non-collaborative ones. Iranian authors of parasitology have many collaborative articles with their counterparts in United Kingdom (U.K). Moreover, Mohebali with 26 articles was the most productive scientists of parasitology, as well Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 114 records (29.08%) was the most productive institution in the field of parasitology. Our results indicated that the scientific productions trend including research and write down in the domain of parasitology have considerable been increased in 2008. As a whole,the journal entitled "Parasitology Research " published the 65 citations of all parasitology articles corresponding Iranian researchers.