Rethinking Health reforms in Iran: letter to the editor

Background: Studying and evolution of medical sciences is so important to draw up the future path with a view to per capita of science production. The purpose of this study was to clarify the status and position of Iran in science production and compare it with four competitor countries of the region for 2025.Methods: This research is conducted using the scientometric method our ranked citations and ranked document data collection source is the SCImago database. The statistical population is the priority fields of Iran health program, which has 25 field names In three categories: infrastructure, survival, perfection, compared with the four competitor countries in the Middle East. The evaluated time period is examined are from 2010 to 2017. Data analysis is performed using Excel software.Results: In three groups of infrastructure, survival, and perfection, the results are as below respectively. The highest rate of progress in terms of the ranked document in the groups of infrastructure, family physician area with 314% growth belongs to Iran, in the groups of survival, Nanosciences with 269% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of perfection, nursing with 193% growth belong to Iran again. But in terms of ranked citations, in the groups of infrastructure, health information management with 193% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of survival, Nano sciences with 247% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of perfection, nursing with 166% growth belongs to Egypt.Conclusion: In terms of ranked citations and ranked document, Iran has achieved the first rank of the region in the majority of subject areas in 2017. Iran and Saudi Arabia in the majority of thematic areas have had an ascending rate and Israel and Turkey have had a descending rate in the ratio of variation in two periods. Iran has also the highest rank in three thematic areas in terms of citations per document comparing to the competitors.