The Article of Faculty Members of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Was Included among Hot Papers

The article of Dr. Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Dr. Hoda Alavizadeh, Subspecialty student of Nano Biotechnology of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, investigating the pharmacological and toxicological effects of Crocin, the influential component of Saffron, managed to be included in the list of the most referred articles as well as among Hot papers and One-tenth percent.

This paper, as the first article of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences included among Hot Papers, comprehensively investigated the pharmacological and toxicological effects of Crocin, the influential component of Saffron. Some of the effects of Crocin obtained through this paper include improving memory and learning, anti Alzheimer, anti brain and heart strokes, anti diabetes, decreasing blood fat, and some other influences on some toxins.

Dr Hosseinzadeh and Alavizadeh’s article recently included among Hot Papers has been referred to 22 times in ISI, 27 times in Scopus, and 47 times in Google Scholar.

It should also be noted that Dr. Hosseinzadeh, the only faculty member of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences whose article was included among Hot papers, had also for the first time in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences  won the one-percent place among world’s scientists

About  Tot Papers:       

Top papers refer to papers with the most references also called one and one-tenth percent articles including the most referred articles and Hot papers.

About Hot papers:

Hot papers refer to papers receiving the most reference in their fields and included among one-tenth percent ones. Time interval for estimation of Hot papers is 2 months and for estimation of the most referred ones is 10 years. Therefore, according to the average number of reference, Hot papers are not necessarily included among the most referred ones and vice versa.