Cell Journal (Jan 2010)
A Review of Scientific Productions by Iranian Researchers on Stem Cells in the ISI Database
Abstract
The purpose of this survey is to identify the number of scientific papers written aboutstem cells by Iranian researchers. In this regard, to use the results for future stem cellresearch by Iranian scientists. In this survey we have used scientometric method as asingle quantitative method. The statistical population of this article includes all articlespublished by Iranian researchers from the earliest records until the end of 2007 as citedin the ISI database, which is the web based version of science citation index (SCI). Theresults show that Ghavamzadeh with 19 articles is the most productive Iranian researcherin the ISI database. The majority of published articles have been written by more thanone author. A review of the findings show that Iranian researchers have been successfulin stem cell production.
