TY - JOUR ID - 515 TI - Citation analysis of graduate Dental thesis references: Before and after an intervention JO - Future of Medical Education Journal JA - FMEJ LA - en SN - 2251-8347 AU - Tirgar, Aram AU - Abolghasemi, Mohammad Bagher AU - Yaminfirooz, Mousa AD - Social Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran AD - Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran AD - General Education Department, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R.Iran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 2 EP - 7 KW - Citation analysis KW - Thesis KW - Dentistry KW - Iranian National Medical Digital Library (INLM) DO - 10.22038/fmej.2013.515 N2 - Background: Introduction of Iranian National Medical Digital Library (INLM) was a huge investment during several years ago. The aim of this study was to discover the effectiveness of this scientific intervention by examination of citation pattern among graduate dental thesis during before and after of INLM accessibility. Methods: This analytical study was conducted among all of graduate dental thesis at Babol University of Medical Sciences (during 2007-2010) using citation analysis. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and analyzed using descriptive statistical indexes and ANOVA test. Results: The outcome extracted of 111 theses and 5334 citations showed that journals were the most frequent format (80%) and there were not any statistical significant difference between numbers of cited references over the four years. Furthermore, there was not any positive effect on age of cited references. Conclusions: Overall, according to limited effect on number, age and types of cited references during before and after of INLM access, it can be concluded that INLM had negligible effect on citation pattern and more research in this regard is necessary. UR - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_515.html L1 - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_515_9f8f7745754d20672dfdf886f879b72e.pdf ER -