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Contribution of Iranian researchers in Alzheimer's disease research: A 10 years scientometric analysis

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Background

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and is a rising issue for global health. Iran is struggling with a growing number of the elderly population and also a decrease in fertility rate. The goal of this study was to review and evaluate Alzheimer's disease publications by Iranian researchers.

Methods

We searched for Alzheimer and all its related keywords in the Web of Science to find related documents published by Iranian researchers from 2010 until 2019. Bibliometric parameters at the level of documents, authors, and organizations were assessed. The co-authorship matrix was computed using Bibexcel, and visualizations were performed by VOSviewer.

Results

Totally, 1042 documents from 4949 researchers (8.6 authors per document) were retrieved from Web of Science. Original articles (77.06%) and reviews (16.21%) were the most common document types for Iranian publications and also one article was retracted. As results, the average citation per document was 20.68. Iranian researchers mainly collaborated with researchers from the United States, Italy, Australia, and Canada, respectively. The co-occurrence networks for keywords represented five publication clusters in the collection. The largest cluster was related to studies on oxidative stress in Alzheimer's Disease, followed by in-vivo studies in the field of brain neurons destruction.

Conclusion

We found that Iranian researchers made significant impacts in the field of Alzheimer's disease and covered a wide range of related areas over the last 10 years.

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  1. Student Research Committee, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

    Arash Ghazbani & Golbarg Mehdizadeh

  2. School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Javad Mansourzadeh

  3. Department of Physiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Mojtaba Ghobadi

  4. Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Seyed Masoud Arzaghi

  5. Osteoporosis Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, No. 10, Jalal-Al-Ahmad Ave., Tehran, Iran

    Afshin Ostovar

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All authors contributed to the study's concept and design. Search strategy preparation and searching the databases were performed by AG, MJM and AO. Analysis was performed by MJM and AG. The first draft of the manuscript was written by AG, MJM, GM, MG, and AO, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ghazbani, A., Mansourzadeh, M.J., Mehdizadeh, G. et al. Contribution of Iranian researchers in Alzheimer's disease research: A 10 years scientometric analysis. J Diabetes Metab Disord 20, 2025–2036 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40200-021-00929-6

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