Journals In Iran Research Articles

NOT ALL THAT WHEEZES IS ASTHMA: A CASE OF KOMMERELL DIVERTICULUM

NOT ALL THAT WHEEZES IS ASTHMA: A CASE OF KOMMERELL DIVERTICULUM

Professor Abdulkarim Vessal (1933-2022) and His Role in Promotion of Radiology and Medical Journalism in Iran.

Abdulkarim Vessal, a distinguished professor of the Shiraz School of Medicine, was the founder of the "Archives of Iranian Medicine Journal" and a permanent member of the "Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences", who finally, after five decades of efforts to promote radiology and medical journalism in Iran, passed away on February 18, 2022 in Shiraz. His demise is a great loss for the Iranian medical community, especially in Shiraz. In the present paper, his life and career are briefly reviewed.

Dental research in Iran: a bibliometric analysis of electronically available literature

To carry out a bibliometric analysis of all electronically available dental literature in Iran from 1983 to 2006, in order to study availability and examine trends. Accessing all electronically available Iranian dental articles published in domestic journals, and comparing the results with Iranian dental articles published in Pubmed. The following data were collected from each article: name of journal, year of publication, number of authors, gender of corresponding author, academic levels of authors, main language of article, language of abstract, study environment, population studied, field of dentistry, type of article, design strategy, design of study, and analysis design. In terms of publications in domestic journals, a total of 1,994 dental articles were electronically available, published in six different dental journals in Iran. Majority of articles, 84.5%, were original studies. In terms of design strategy, 49.7% of studies were cross-sectional, 35.5% were prospective, and 14.8% were retrospective studies. The main language of 99.3% of articles was Farsi, and 0.7% was English. Majority of articles, 38.7%, were written by two authors. Gender of corresponding author in 66.7% of articles was male, and in 33.3% of articles was female. There was an increasing trend in percentage of original studies, clinical trials and female corresponding authors. In terms of publications in Pubmed, a total of 75 dental articles from Iran were electronically available. Significant differences were revealed in terms of number of authors, study types and design strategies when compared to publications in domestic journals. A number of encouraging trends were identified, which is a reflection of improvements in quality of domestic electronic dental literature. However, as the majority of articles are written in Farsi, availability of research evidence to the international community is limited. Overall, results of this study indicate the need for future bibliometric analyses which can be used to construct a comprehensive database that will assist in evidence-based clinical decision making.

A glance at one decade of water pollution research in Iranian environmental health journals

BackgroundDue to the importance of water, the negative effects of water pollution on human health and the lack of proper knowledge of the state of research in this regard, the purpose of this study was to analyse scientific publications on water pollution in Iranian journals of environmental health.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted using a scientometric method over a ten-year period (2008–2017) on articles published in five specialised environmental health journals emphasising the issue of water pollution. Data were collected through a researcher-based checklist using the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) recommendations. Data processing was done using descriptive statistics and VOSviewer software.ResultsA review of 1276 articles in specialised environmental health journals revealed that 33.7% of the articles were in the field of water. Physical and chemical factors in water were the main subjects of 21.4% of studies, and temperature and turbidity were the most important physical factors. Microbial agents in groundwater and surface water were the main subjects of 14.1% of the articles. The findings show that 55 of 430 articles related to water were written with contributions from 20 countries (including Iran), with the most contributions from researchers from Asia.ConclusionsGood conditions do not exist to investigate the status of articles on water pollution in specialised environmental health journals in Iran over a ten-year period. Health policymakers should therefore provide mechanisms to encourage national researchers, especially environmental health professionals, by setting national research priorities on quality and water pollution to conduct studies in this regard.

Pathophysiology and Pathology of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With COVID-19.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among hospitalized patients with Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19), with the occurrence of AKI ranging from 0.5% to 80%. The variability in the occurrence of AKI has been attributed to the difference in geographic locations, race/ethnicity, and severity of illness. AKI among hospitalized patients is associated with increased length of stay and in-hospital deaths. Even patients with AKI who survive to hospital discharge are at risk of developing chronic kidney disease or end-stage kidney disease. An improved knowledge of the pathophysiology of AKI in COVID-19 is crucial to mitigate and manage AKI and to improve the survival of patients who developed AKI during COVID-19. The goal of this article is to provide our current understanding of the etiology and the pathophysiology of AKI in the setting of COVID-19.

Demography of Medical Journals in Iran; a Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction:Policymaking in order to increase the quality of medical journals needs having accurate data from their current status.Objective:The present study was designed with the aim of introducing a demographic scheme of Iranian journals in the field of medical sciences. Method:This cross-sectional study was performed on all the medical journals being published in Iran in 2016. The list of all journal titles was extracted by referring to the medical journals databanks (ministry of health, Magiran, IranMedex, Irandoc and…), and the data required for the study were gathered using journals’ homepages or by phone or in person, by attending the journal’s office.Results:Totally, 521 journals were assessed. Publication language used was English in 297 (57%) journals and 515 (98.85%) were open access. 381 (73.1%) journals were published quarterly and the year of starting publication was 2010 onwards in case of 245 (48.0%) of journals. There were 29 (5.56%) journals, which were indexed in all 3 databases of ISI, PubMed and Scopus. Only 4.81% of the journals had an official impact factor announced by Thomson-Reuters or Clarivate Analytics Company. Mean time needed for review of articles was 1.89 ± 1.52 (0.5 – 12) months (n = 146) and mean time interval between accepting an article and its print or electronic publication was 3.63 ± 2.17 (0 – 12) months (n = 144). Rate of membership of these journals in COPE and ICMJE were 40% and 27%, respectively.Conclusion:Most medical journals being published in Iran were English quarterly journals that were regularly published in the fields of general medicine, open access, with university affiliations, centered in the capital, and more than 80% of them had started publishing from 2000 and afterwards.

Telegramming News: How have Telegram channels transformed journalism in Iran?

This research tries to evaluate Telegram’s effects on journalism and news writing in Iran. The emergence of social media has affected many social and political trends in societies, as well as journalism practices and procedures. Telegram, as the most popular social media in Iran, hypothetically has the power to do so. Moreover, there are numerous channels on Telegram which publish news posts daily. Therefore, I tried to explore how these channels impact journalism in Iran. Doing so, I analyzed how the structure of news is transformed by the emergence of new forms of news writing and the disappearance of traditional standards. Furthermore, I probed the news values on Telegram channels to find out how a piece of writing becomes a news in this new space. Finally, I studied how objectivity was treated by Telegram channels, to provide a comprehensive interpretation of news on Telegram. A wide range of textual methods (both quantitative and qualitative content analyses and discourse analysis) were employed to analyze the most viewed posts on Telegram channels during Iran’s 2017 presidential election period. As a result, 620 posts in 31 days were gathered and analyzed. The results showed that the news structure has changed more than the ways that channels use news values. In fact, the old standards of news writing are abandoned and new forms, such as screenshots, have emerged. Moreover, prominence is the most favorable news value on these channels; while relevance and magnitude are of least interest. Finally, findings revealed that the majority of news posts are objective.

Shortcomings of Evaluation Worksheets for Scientific Art Articles in Iran Based on Merton's Science Norms

The scientific journal assessment worksheets are the most important tool for evaluating the quality of scientific papers. The purpose of this research is an objective and qualitative description of indices used in the worksheets for the evaluation of art scientific research journals in Iran and to acknowledge their shortcomings in comparison with the norms of science from the Robert King Merton's perspective. The research approach in this study is combining survey and content analysis. Statistical samples consisted of nine worksheets developed for the evaluation of specialized art journal articles with a scientific research rank. Moreover, 14 experts in the fields of Scientometrics and art were invited to provide feedback on the extent to which the evaluation criteria used in the evaluation worksheets are in conformity with Merton’s science norms. Data collection was done in two forms including library research, referring to scientific journal databases, and structured interviews. In order to uncover the existing status of the indicators from the researcher-made check list, Excel software and a questionnaire were used as research instruments. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics along with relevant tables and charts. Findings of the research show that out of the total 53 existing indicators, the index of using sufficient and new valid sources (internal and external) had the highest frequency (77.78%). The findings also indicated that the other 26 indicators had the lowest frequency percentage (11.11%). Moreover, these indices are consistent with the six out of seven of Merton's science norms (less than 18%). The obtained results revealed the unbalanced distribution of components and indicators of evaluation in these worksheets and their non-conformance to the norms of science, necessitating their revision.

Relationship Between Declarations of Conflict of Interests and Reporting Positive Outcomes in Iranian Dental Journals.

Conflict of interests is a situation when someone is in need of other people's trust on one the hand and has personal or general interests on the other hand, resulting in conflict with the given responsibility. In this research work, an attempt was made to find the relation between declarations of conflict of interests and reporting positive outcomes in the dental journals in Iran (2000-2016). In this analytical/cross-sectional study, first Health and Biomedical Information was searched and all the Persian and English dental journals published in Iran were collected. Then, all the papers published in the journals from December 2000 to December 2016 were collected and categorized in terms of the year of publication, author or authors' affiliations, Persian and English journal, type of the substance or the drug used (including the manufacturing company), declarations of conflict of interests and the positive or negative conclusion of the report. Data were analyzed with the Fisher's exact test and Chi squared test, using the program SPSS 18. In numerical analysis, the significance was set at P<0.05. Seventeen dental journals in Persian and English were analyzed: 10 in English and 7 in Persian. Reviewing these studies showed that of 1021 articles in Persian, in 128 cases there was no mention of a declaration of conflict of interests and in 11 cases, the COI had been stated. In addition, from 1220 articles in English, in 825 cases there was no mention of declarations of conflict of interests and in 45 cases, the declarations of COI had been mentioned. There was no significant relation between the COI and 'no' COI and the reporting of positive outcomes in papers in Iranian dental journals in terms of the journal type, year of publication and the journals' guarantee form (P=0.25, P=0.41 and P=0.09). A total of 83% of studies with declarations of COI had one positive outcome, with a significant relationship in this field; however, in 73% of studies with no COI, there was one positive outcome, too. In general, the society expects that doctors would not consider any incentives except the health of the patients in the efforts made by them. The severity of the consequences of COI is of higher value when the patients' health is endangered due to it. In addition, COI might change the attitude and approach of other doctors and peers.

Some aspects of the life history of Cobitis avicennae (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from Western Iran

Hadi Jamali, Rahman Patimar, Vahid Daraei, Nafiseh Paricheh, Mohammad Farhadi, Sareh Nazerian Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, Urmia University, Urmia 46414-356, Iran Department of Fisheries, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad Kavous, Iran Department of Fisheries, Persian Gulf University, Booshehr, Iran Department of Fisheries, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran Journal of Coastal Life Medicine 2016; 4(6): 435-439

Combined effects of silver nanoparticles and mercury on gill histopathology of zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Borhan Mansouri, Raouf Rahmani, Nammam Ali Azadi, Seyed Ali Johari Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran Biostatistics Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Journal of Coastal Life Medicine 2016; 4(6): 421-425

The survey of factors related to self-efficacy based on Orem’s theory in patients with coronary artery bypass surgery in Tehran in 2014

The survey of factors related to self-efficacy based on Orem’s theory in patients with coronary artery bypass surgery in Tehran in 2014

Structural assessment of Iranian scholarly journals

Scholarly journals should adhere to quantitative and qualitative standards for their continuing existence and acceptance by the scientific community, making them eligible for application and indexation in international databases. Concerning this, the journal editorial board would be held accountable for any flaws in publication standards. Obviously, improving standards causes perpetual scholarly communication between authors and journal editors as well as publishers, accreditation and quality assurance, and research finding dissemination. The objective of this study is to assess the status of 359 scientific journals in Iran with regards to their commitment to publication standards. The findings depict journals’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to the editorial profile, instant references, layout quality, exclusive features, academic profile, and miscellaneous features.

History of the development of journalism in Iran 1819-1914 AD

The press and those in charge of it in Iran enjoyed a kind of relative freedom during the first phase of its life, that is, from the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the events of the constitutional movement in 1905 AD, when the country witnessed the issuance of the first newspaper with the efforts of the Iranian government and with the direct support and attribution of the Shah. Its articles have always been far from Direct criticism of the state's policy and the way it deals with the foreign presence in Iran. This paved the way for the sons of the educated elite who found in themselves the competence to issue a newspaper and magazine that represented at the time the inclinations of those in charge of it and expressed in one way or another the orientations of the Iranian street and its desire for liberation and emancipation. After the events of the Constitutional Movement in 1905 AD, the Iranian government's policy towards press freedoms changed, as a set of laws were issued that regulated the work of these newspapers, and everyone could no longer publish newspapers however they wanted, as strict control was placed on the work of these newspapers, especially in critical times that they had gone through Iran at that time. Not only that, but the state faced those who criticized it by arresting, imprisoning, and closing the offices of opposition newspapers. But despite that, the efforts of the intellectuals did not stop in this regard, on the contrary, it continued and witnessed the first period of the rule of Ahmad Shah Qajar 1909-1925 AD, the issuance of many newspapers and magazines of different orientations, the numbers of which reached hundreds

The effect of education of self care behaviors based on family-centered empowerment model in type II diabetes

The effect of education of self care behaviors based on family-centered empowerment model in type II diabetes

Ethical Considerations in Publishing Medical Articles in Iranian Journals

Summary Publication ethics has always been a major concern of chief editors and members of editorial boards of journals. Therefore, the current study intends to investigate ethical issues in sticking to publication ethics in major medical journals in Iran. This descriptive analytical study was conducted on Iranian medical journals approved as “scientific research journals” published from 2011 to 2012; the sample included 109 articles from 102 journals published in Persian. For data gathering, a checklist was developed, and completed through careful scrutiny of the articles and contact with authors. Ethical misconducts were recorded and summarized to compute the misconduct cases. Ethical misconducts included lack of the ethics committee approval (81.7%), unstated informed consent (45%), authors with insufficient contribution (46.8%), dispute on the order of authors (84.4%), honor authors (8.3%), ghost authors (6.4%), salami publishing (10.1%), concurrent submission (4.6%), missing acknowledgements (49.5%) and not mentioning the financial support providers (56.9%). The results indicated that some ethical considerations are ignored in publishing medical articles. Therefore, both journals and authors need to take action to avoid misconducts.

Effect of Oral Propranolol on Labor Induction

Effect of Oral Propranolol on Labor Induction

The Relationship between Sexual Function

The Relationship between Sexual Function

Political Satire as an Index of Press Freedom: A Review of Political Satire in the Iranian Press during the 2000s

Political satire has had a prominent part to play in the social and political sphere of journalism in Iran since the appearance of an independent press in the country at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper examines the problems of political satire in the Iranian press during the 2000s with respect to their historical context during the past century. The paper argues that, addressing the essential relationship between satire and criticism, and the primary role that criticism has in the freedom of press, what happened to political satire and satirists in Iran can be seen as an index of the freedom of the press and journalistic expression for an era.

Self-efficacy and compliance with treatment regimen in tuberculosis

AbstractBackground and aimTuberculosis is a major public health problem in the world, affecting 30% of the world’spopulation. Treatment of tuberculosis is the most effective strategy to stop the spread of thedisease. However, non-adherence remains an important cause of treatment failure. It is believedself-efficacy may affect patient’s compliance to treatment regimen. The purpose of this study is todetermine the correlation between self-efficiency and treatment compliance in tuberculosis patientsattending to medical centers of Kurdistan University of medical sciences Kudistan, Iran.Materials and MethodA descriptive-correlational design was used. The sample of the study consisted of 161 tuberculosispatients attending to health centers in Kurdistan province .Data were collected using a self efficacyquestionnaire and the review of patients' medical records. he validity of the questionnaires weredetermined by 12 experts through the content validity and formal validity methods. The minimumindex of content validity for self-efficiency questionnaire was calculated to be 75.5 percent and thatof compliance was 83.5 percent. The reliability of the questionnaires was determined using theKrunbach's Alpha-Test. The coefficient of reliability for self-efficiency questionnaire andcompliance questionnaire were 0.94 and 0.97 respectively. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 16software.FindingsThe average age for patients was 58±12 years old. 61.5 percent of studied samples were male andthe rest were female. The amount of compliance by patients was moderate (average scores of30.23) and correlated to age, marital status, job, income level, education and place of living but, itsrelation to gender was not statistically significant. The amount of self-efficiency of the majority ofpatients was moderate (41.6 percent) and it was also related to age, marital status, job, incomelevel, education and place of living but its relation to gender was not statistically significant. Therewas a direct and strong correlation between self-efficiency and compliance (P<0.001, r=0.90).ConclusionThe reason why the compliance level in this study has been higher with respect to the previoussimilar studies could be due to the implementation of direct supervision and control system overtreatment. In this study there was a significant correlation between compliance and self-efficiencywhich was in consistency with most studies in this field while in Hamilton (2000) no significantcorrelation between the two variables was reported. Given that the correlation coefficient ofPearson in this study is positive and close to 1 (P < 0.001, r = 0.90), it indicates a direct and strongcorrelation between the two variables of self-efficiency and compliance.Corresponding Author:Zhila Abed Saeedi, Assistant professor Shahid Beheshti Department ofNursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran Iran . 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