Trend of Publications from Iran in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Document Type : LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India

Abstract

Iran has witnessed an upward trend of the publications in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, more so in the last decade. It ranks at number 2 among all the Middle East Countries. In the last decade, the number of Iranian publications has risen from 245 (in 2013) to 648 (in 2022), with a percentage growth of 164.5%, as seen in the Scopus database at SCImago web portal. The global ranking of Iran was at 18 in 2022, with 648 annual publications in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, and the global publication share of 1.24 percent.

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