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 Background and Aim: The lack of paying attention to overlap between two databases cause purchase of duplicate resources waste of funds. This study examined overlap of articles in the field of cardiovascular which was indexed in Scopus and Web of science databases during years 2001 to 2010.

 Materials and Methods: In this study, at first, sub-headings in cardiovascular field from medical thesaurus (Mesh 2012) was extracted, then each keyword in the title of the articles in both databases were searched and articles retrieved. Then bibliographic information of these articles entered into Endnote X3 software and afterwards was arranged based on alphabetically title. As a result common articles between the two databases and unique articles to each database was determined. Using SPSS version 0.1.0.8 the amount of relative and traditional overlaps was calculated between the two databases.

 Results: Totally 45,680 articles were retrieved. There were 27,979 common titles, 14,875 articles belonged only to Scopus and 2826 articles belonged to Web of Science. Finally traditional overlap was 61/5%. Overlaps of Web of Science with Scopus 65/28% and Scopus with Web of Science were 65/28% and 90/82% repectively.

 Conclusion: The amount of relative overlap between the two databases as well as relative overlaps from Scopus with Web of Science is more than the relative overlaps from Web of science with Scopus. It means many articles that have been indexed in Scopus don’t exist in the Web of science.

 

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Background and Aim: Scholarly journals are quite necessary for each society’s scientific life, especially the medical society, because they represent the academic community’s achievements to a large extent at regional, national and international levels. The present research, therefore, aims at a comparative study on the qualitative and quantitative growth of journals and articles in medical sciences and related fields in Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) member countries in Scopus. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive survey with a scientometric approach. The population of the study includes scientific journals and articles in medical sciences indexed in Scopus database. In this study, EMRO academic products and 140 scientific journals have been investigated. Results: The results show that a large number of member countries’ scientific works have been produced and published in medical fields (The main topic of 144,628 out of 573,067 documents published by these countries has been medical fields). Meanwhile, the number of journals which were indexed during the studied period increased from 17 to 127. Conclusion: The production of scientific documents and academic journals in the field of medicine in EMRO member countries has increased during the studied period and has had a considerable leap in the final years. Academic articles have increased along with the increase in scientific journals in these countries.