Shah Jahan Shayan
Background:
Credible evidence appropriate to the setting and accessible is fundamental to
providing quality health services and education. Therefore, we aim to evaluate
Afghanistan's health research capacity.Method: Bibliometric analysis was done
in four databases by keywords of “Afghanistan” including the PubMed, Web of
Sciences, Scopus, and Science Direct to see how many articles have been
published on Afghanistan people's health problems and to determine the
contribution of indigenous institutions and scientists.
Result:
Out of 1075 articles that met our inclusion criteria, just 140 (13.02%)
articles were written by scholars with affiliation with Afghanistan
institutions (n = 34 org). Afghanistan Universities account for 25 articles out
of 140. Ministry of public health, with 52 articles, French Institute for
Children with 16 articles, and Kabul University of Medical Sciences with 11
articles were leading the organizations in Afghanistan in terms of publication
numbers.
Conclusion:
There are few numbers of publications considering the health of Afghanistan
people. The indigenous health research system's capacity is low, and dependency
exists in different perspectives to the other countries. The universities of
Afghanistan have not paly its role in producing knowledge.