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Introduction: the growing rate of medical information on the Internet and its effect on community health has necessitated the evaluation and validation of health websites. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of Persian diabetes websites, based on the WebMedQual scale, as one of the modern and comprehensive health website evaluation methods
Materials and Methods: the research population comprised of all Persian Diabetes Websites [12 websites] which were retrieved using the keyword diabetes in Persian language, in the search engines of Google, Yahoo and Bing. The WebMedQual checklist, containing 83 questions, was used to collect data. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, using SPSS
Results: regarding the three indexes: information content, design and links, Persian Diabetes Websites obtained about 50% of WebMedQual scores and were generally at a moderate level. They obtained less than average, regarding other scores, including: credit resources, accessibility and usability, privacy and user support. The "Gabric Diabetes Education Association" website, with 75.9% of the necessity scores, achieved the first rank among Persian diabetes websites
Conclusion: it is recommended that the producers and designers of Persian diabetes websites consider the strength and weaknesses of websites for improving their quality. Health custodians could contribute to community health by introducing reputable websites to the users
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Introduction: Regarding the importance of medical research, scientific mapping and social network analysis, the main aim of this article was to visualize scientific mapping of medicine in Iran in 2007 based on the two indices of degree and betweenness centrality of social network analysis
Methods: In this scientometric study, the population of the study included all medical scientific products of Iran in 2007 indexed in Science Citation Index [3967 documents]. Network Workbench Tool [NWB] was used for calculating subject category co-citation, analyzing social networks and visualizing the maps
Results: More than 37% of scientific products of Iran in 2007 belonged to medical categories. The most productive category was general and internal medicine and the most cited category was from pharmacology and pharmacy. These two categories together with biochemistry and molecular biology ranked the highest in degree and betweenness centrality. The strongest co-citation link was between general and internal medicine and public health, occupational and environmental health
Discussion: Using the social network indices is effective in the analysis of scientific mapping of medicine. Highly productive and more cited subject categories have strong presence in scientific maps of subject category co-citation
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Pharmaceutical theses including medicinal plants subjects are invaluable informative sources. If they are disseminated properly, many research problems can be solved. Unfortunately, theses results are almost ignored. Content analysis is a bibliometrics technique that is applied in many subjects to help us know what the researchers have done before.Another way of information dissemination about the results of theses is through publishing in the scientific research journals. In this article, the medicinal plants theses conducted in the years between 1998 and 2006 have been analyzed and searched in the SID database to determine the number of theses that have been published as articles in scientific journals. The Technique used in this descriptive research is content analysis. This survey aims at specifying medicinal plants, according to their family, genus and species in the medicinal plants theses and their subject. Besides, the SID database was searched to determine the number of theses that their results have been published as journal articles. The results indicated that medicinal plants theses comprised%20 of total theses. The family of "Labiatae" including 24 genus and 36 species and the genus "Tanacetum" including 13 species showed the great variation. Most of theses were about the specieses "danae racemosa" and "zataria multiflora". The Main subjects of dissertations were "phytochemistry", "pharmacological effects" and "essential oils". Only%7.4 of theses was published as articles in the scientific journals. publishing of the result of theses as scientific articles plays very significant role in pharmaceutical information dissemination. The Pharmacy faculties should be aware of the past researches to orient the students to choose the appropriate theses' subjects. Making data bases could be useful in this regard