摘要：Background: Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers call for updated valid evidence tomonitor, prevent, and control of alarming trends of health problems. To respond to these needs, health researches provide the vast multidisciplinary scientific fields. We quantify the national trendsof health research outputs and its contribution in total science products. Methods: We systematicallysearched Scopus database with the most coverage in health and biomedicine discipline as the onlysources for multidisciplinary citation reports, for all total and health?related publications, from 2000to 2014. These scientometrics analyses covered the trends of main index of scientific products, citations, and collaborative papers. We also provided information on top institutions, journals, andcollaborative research centers in the fields of health researches. Results: In Iran, over a 15?yearperiod, 237, 056 scientific papers have been published, of which 81, 867 (34.53%) were assigned tohealth?related fields. Pearson’s Chi?square test showed significant time trends between publishedpapers and their citations. Tehran University of Medical Sciences was responsible for 21.87% ofknowledge productions share. The second and the third ranks with 11.15% and 7.28% belonged toAzad University and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, respectively. In total fields, Iran had the most collaborative papers with the USA (4.17%), the UK (2.41%), and Canada (0.02%). In health?related papers, similar patterns of collaboration followed by 4.75%, 2.77%, and 1.93% ofpapers. Conclusions: Despite the ascending trends in health research outputs, more efforts requiredfor the promotion of collaborative outputs that cause synergy of resources and the use of practicalresults. These analyses also could be useful for better planning and management of planning andconducting studies in these fields.
