Maryam Vizheh - Islamic Azad University of Mahabad, Mahabad, Iran /school of Nursing and Midwifery
Asieh Darvish - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery-Iran, Tehran

Backgrounds: Research in reproductive health (RH) has been located in the core of women's health research and providing accurate information through conducting scientific and controlled research is essential. Bibliometric methods and social network analysis have been used to measure the scope and illustrate scientific output of researchers in this field.Material and Method : In this cross-sectional study, the samples included all scientific publications about reproductive health, indexed in the Web of Science databases during the period 1983- 2019. VOS viewer software was used for creating maps and network analysis on journals, authors, publication years, organizations, funding companies, countries, keywords and Web of sciences Categories.Result: USA with 34.291% of scientific productions in this field was ranked the first among the all countries. Only 4 articles from Iranian researchers have been published and occupied the 40th rank. The universities of Mashhad and Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences had the most publications. Harvard University and reproductive health matters were the most organization and journal working on this issue.Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the amount of scientific production in world and Iran in the field of reproductive health is very low. Therefore, the health and social sectors have to be strengthened in this area.

Reproductive health, Bibliometric analysis, Scientometric.