fa Quality of the Results Section of Original Dental Articles Published in National Farsi and International English Journals بیماری های دهان Oral Medicine پژوهشي Research <p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)">research results of Iranian scientists in accredited journals. As the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. This study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in Iranian Farsi and international English journals.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Methods: </i></strong>This analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted on 64 dental articles published in 3 international English and 3 Iranian Farsi journals. Selection of journals was non-random but articles were selected randomly based on specific criteria. A checklist containing 32 criteria regarding general statistics, context of the results, statistical tests, tables, charts and graphs was prepared. Obtained data were analyzed by SPSS 10 using Fisher’s exact and chi square tests.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Results: </i></strong>Farsi articles met 64.1% and English articles met 65.8% of the checklist criteria. No significant difference was found in the quality of the results section of Farsi and English papers (P>0.05).</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Conclusion: </i></strong>Most papers did not provide adequate details in the results section to help readers better comprehend the subject.</p><hr><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><span lang="FA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><!--stripped--> <!--stripped--></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><b>Source: </b>Journal of Dental School Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><a href="http://jds.sbmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_id=1346&sid=1&slc_lang=en" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Full Text</font></a></p> Results, Quality of writing, Farsi articles, English articles, 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-2935&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Sedigheh Bakhtiari 100319475328460013650 100319475328460013650 No Dept. of Oral Medicine, Dental School, Shahaid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Kaveh Alavi 100319475328460013651 100319475328460013651 No Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Zahra Alizadeh Dakhel 100319475328460013652 100319475328460013652 No Eznollah Azargashb 100319475328460013653 100319475328460013653 No Dept. of Psychology and Social Sciences, Health science, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Somayyeh Azimi somayyeh_azimi@yahoo.com 100319475328460013654 100319475328460013654 Yes Dept. of Oral Medicine, Dental School, Shahaid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Jamileh Beigom Taheri 100319475328460013655 100319475328460013655 No Dept. of Oral Medicine, Dental School, Shahaid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran