Quran and Medicine

Quran and Medicine

Explanation of scientific ways in the field of Quran and health: a bibliometric study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Meisam Dastani 1
Mohammad Hossein Sadeghian 2
Javad Bagheri 3
1 PhD in Knowledge and Information Science (Knowledge and Information Retrieval (, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran.
2 Associte Professor of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Islamic Studies, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
Abstract
Preface: The scientific field of Quran and health is recognized as an important aspect in the field of health by examining the relationship between Quranic concepts and mental and physical health. The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing scientific productions in the field of Quran and health and identifying scientific ways in this field.
Materials and methods: The study is an applied type, which was carried out using the bibliometric method with an analytical approach. All the scientific productions of researchers in the field of Quran and health were retrieved from the Scopus database on January 16, 2024 using the appropriate search strategy.
Findings: Based on the findings, 118 scientific productions have been retrieved from the Scopus database in the field of Quran and health between 1990 and 2024. Scientific productions in the field of Quran and health were mostly research articles with 78% and reviews with 12%. Malaysia with 110 documents, Iran with 105 documents and Indonesia with 45 documents had the highest participation in the scientific productions of this scientific field. Mashhad University of Medical Sciences with 16 documents and University of Malaysia with 11 documents were the most productive institutions. Thematic clusters in the scientific field of the Quran and health include the effects of the Quran on mental and physical health, nutrition, prayer and miracles of the Quran.
Conclusion: The results of this study have shown that this scientific field is a dynamic field with a variety of studies. The results of this study can help policy making in the future research in the field of providing appropriate orientation of scientific productions in the field of Quran and health.
 
Keywords
Quran
health
scientific products
bibliometric
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