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Sheikhtaheri A. A commentary on “bibliometric analysis and visual mapping of Journal of Health Administration from 1997 to 2024”: citation and publication challenges in Persian journals. jha 2026; 28 (4) :99-104
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Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran & Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Research Unit, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , sheikhtaheri.a@iums.ac.ir
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The trend of citations received by 198 Scopus-indexed articles from the Journal of Health Administration between 2019 and 2024 shows that the number of citations has increased from zero in 2019 to 97 and 84 in 2024 and 2025, respectively. A total of 183 citations (51%) were in Iranian journals, while the remaining 174 citations (49%) were in non-Iranian journals. The annual trend demonstrates a growing share of citations from non-Iranian journals and international authors, suggesting an expanding global visibility of the journal following its inclusion in Scopus. Iranian authors are usually less inclined to publish their high-quality articles in Persian journals or to cite articles published in Persian. Research policies such as lower research scores for Persian articles, higher evaluation scores for universities and research centers based on articles published in English ISI-indexed journals with better quartiles, allocating research grants to authors with more articles indexed in ISI journals with better quartiles and higher impact factors, and requiring doctoral students to publish their research in journals covered by PubMed and ISI are among the factors that make Iranian authors reluctant to publish in Persian journals. Therefore, Persian journals, including the Journal of Health Administration, are deprived of both high-quality articles and citations.
Type of Study: Commentary |
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Medical Librarianship and Information Science
Received: 2026/03/2 | Accepted: 2026/03/6 | Published: 2026/03/10
Received: 2026/03/2 | Accepted: 2026/03/6 | Published: 2026/03/10
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