title: Quantitative evaluation of Iranian radiology papers and its comparison with selected countries.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Recent technological developments in medicine, including modern radiology have promoted the impact of scientific researches on social life. The scientific outputs such as article and patents are products that show the scientists' attempt to access these achievements.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  In the current study, we evaluate the current situation of Iranian scientists in the field of radiology and compare it with the selected countries in terms of scientific papers. For this purpose, we used scientometric tools to quantitatively assess the scientific papers in the field of radiology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Radiology papers were evaluated in the context of medical field audit using retrospective model. We used the related databases of biomedical sciences for extraction of articles related to radiology. In the next step, the situation of radiology scientific products of the country were determined with respect to the under study regional countries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results of the current study showed a ratio of 0.19% for Iranian papers in PubMed database published in 2009. In addition, in 2009, Iranian papers constituted 0.29% of the Scopus scientific database. The proportion of Iranian papers in the understudy region was 7.6%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To diminish the gap between Iranian scientific radiology papers and other competitor countries in the region and achievement of document 2025 goals, multifold effort of the society of radiology is necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahyar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghafoori
authors.affiliation: IT and Statistics Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Emami
authors.affiliation: Iranian Society of Radiology, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Abdolrasoul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sedaghat
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghiasi
authors.affiliation: Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Madjid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shakiba
authors.affiliation: Deputy of Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Manijeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alavi
keywords: Geographic Locations; Radiology; Societies, Scientific