en Internal Internal Original Article Original Article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Background</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> Considering the importance of internal medicine and the lack of sufficient scientometric data on the research status of the field in Iran, the study aimed at investigating the state of scientific output in the country compared to the countries in the world.<span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Methods:</span></i></b> This applied research used a scientometric approach. The related <i>MeSH</i>-driven terms in &quot;internal medicine&quot; were selected as search phrases and searched in the SCImago database. SPSS and Excel software packages were used for statistical analysis. Geographical mapping was done with Google Maps for depicting country geographical distribution.<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></i></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Results:</span></i></b> Out of all 4,972,258 papers published by 230 countries worldwide in the field, about 60% belonged to the USA and Western European countries. These countries were at top of citation and self-citation counts as well as the h-index indicator. The citations per paper indicator were 27.1 and about 25.1% of total citations were self-citations. A significant positive correlation was found between the number of papers, citation count, and self-citation rate, and h-index in the field (p<0.001).<b><i><span style="color:blue"></span></i></b></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Conclusion</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> The research status of internal medicine in developed regions and countries was quantitatively and qualitatively better than that of developing countries, including Iran.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="color:#0033cc"></span></span></i></b></span></span></span> Internal medicine, Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Iran 490 497 http://caspjim.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2401-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Shabestani Monfared monfared_ali@yahoo.com 100319475328460037530 100319475328460037530 No Cancer Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol Iran Ali Bijani alibijani@yahoo.com 100319475328460037531 100319475328460037531 No Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Khadijeh Tahmasebi khtahmasbei@gmail.com 100319475328460037532 100319475328460037532 No College of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Mousa Yaminfirooz yaminfirooz@gmail.com 100319475328460037533 100319475328460037533 Yes Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran