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In recent years, scientific output in the field of medical science has grown dramatically, and the determination of the appropriate index for their measurement is necessary. The purpose of the present study is to review the status of existing scientific and index indicators for the evaluation of scientific outputs in the field of medical sciences. In this review study, using Persian keywords (sciences, indexes, journals, universities, researcher) in the Persian Data bases of Magiran, noormags, Irandoc, National Library, Regional Science, Scientific Information Database (SID), Civilica, and Latin Keywords (Scientometric, indicator, Journals, University, Researcher) External databases were searched by Google Advanced Search, Pubmed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ISI and Research Gate. In this regard, it is attempted to extract the most relevant documents in the period 2005-2019 as follows. As a result of the keyword search in the article title, 28 articles with valid and reliable information were reviewed. The findings from the studies showed that there is a unity in all studies, which the existing indices alone cannot fully evaluate the scientific outputs, and all researchers in their research sought to provide a new index to complement or replace the indices. Therefore, scientific work is a complex activity that needs to be evaluated by more than one metric and the need to use synthetic indices cannot be ignored. Nowadays, scientometrics has been widely used to better understand the strengths and weaknesses and to predict and predict the scientific status of researchers at medical universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: As social networks are increasingly used, the research published through social networks should be evaluated. Hence, new measures were employed to examine the scientific effectiveness of social networks. The measurements taken from social networks, called Altmetrics, provide an opportunity to evaluate research. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the presence of indexed articles of researchers affiliated with Bushehr University of Medical Sciences at the Scopus site in social networks. Materials and Methods: The present applied study used altmetrics to determine articles with the highest altmetrics score. Data was collected form June 22nd to August 23rd, 2018 from Scopus database, and analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics (Pearson’s correlation coefficient) in Excel and SPSS version 20. Results: The findings of this study showed that out of 679 articles incexed for Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Scopus database, 128 articles in social networks had altmetrics score in different social networks. The study of various networks showed that Mendely (79.79%), Twitter (8.58%) and Dimensions (6.86%) were the most important social networks that users visited or shared through the research articles. Finally, we found a positive and significant relationship between altmetrics and citation indicators of articles, Conclusion: It can be said that altmetrics can be used as a complement to citation indicators to evaluate the performance of researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]