[Citation and quantitative analysis for articles of "Iran Occupational Health" journal affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences]

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, citation analysis study of journal is a common type of research. For the first time, "Iran Journal of Occupational Health" [IJOH] is considered for a quantitative and a citation analysis study. Using a descriptive cross-sectional study, all IJOH issues with scientific-research grade [n=12, including 106 papers] were investigated. The study tool was an author-made questionnaire and also an inventory. The data was gathered directly from the original published journals. Collected data was analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2010 Software. Findings showed that the majority of articles have used a descriptive cross-sectional method. The subject most surveyed was ergonomics. The majority of studies used enumerative sampling method and cited to English references more than Persian. Male authors were five times more than the females and team-work corporation coefficient was calculated 0.62. There was no normal distribution of subjects among articles. English references were cited more than Persian ones maybe because of short of Persian resources of Persian poor indexing systems. The most repeated study methods were observational. Therefore, it is clear that interventional and other types of studies should be considered are ignored. Conditions and facilities must be enhanced for facilitating other types of studies