title: Effect of university policies on research productions: a scientometric study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study aimed to assess the effect of new package of interventions on scientific productions rate in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through a health system research, we extracted policies from the strategic plan of the university and 10 interventions were developed to increase the scientific productions in terms of quality, quantity and commercialization and to develop infrastructure for research in health service provision and education. For evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, citation and publication indicators for individuals and schools were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test. They were extracted from Scopus and ISI web of knowledge during period of 1/1/2009 to 30/5/2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was an increasing trend in scientific productions from 2009 to mid-2012. We found 60 percent of total scientific productions of the university were published during last 3.5 years. During this 3.5 years, 10 more percentile of faculty members involved in research. Schools of pharmacy, Medicine and Health had the highest scientific products. Mean for h-index was 1.5 (SD=2.49) in ISI and 1.9 (SD=2.89) in Scopus database (p<0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Effective policies and interventions lead to 46% increase in scientific productions from 2009 to 2010 and 56% increase from 2010 to 2011.
authors.affiliation: 1. MD, MPH, Social Determinants of Health Research Center and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. M.sohrabi@sbmu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad-Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sohrabi
authors.affiliation: 2. MD, Department of Dermatology, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Dr_mohammad_rahmati@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahmati-Roodsari
authors.affiliation: 3. MD, Sub-secretary for Research and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. sdhj@sbmu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Saeid-Reza
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Rahmdar
keywords: Citation; Hirsch Index h; Publication output; Scietometrics