Comparison of the Matching of Keywords of Abstracts of Articles Latin Selected Journals of Iranian Dental Indexed in Pubmed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Background: This study evaluates the quality of keywords of abstracts of Latin Selected Journals of Iranian Dental indexed in PubMed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Materials and Methods: The study is comparative descriptive. The data gathering tool is a researcher-made checklist. The Statistical population of the study is two Latin Journals of Iranian Dental approved by the Ministry of Health that indexed in PubMed. The Access 2013 software was used to describe data. Results: In total, 866 keywords of 208 articles were studied. On average, 4.2 keywords were in per article of selected Journals. The amount of the Exact match, Relatively match and Not match keywords in selected Journals is 39.5%, 35.8% and 24.8% respectively. More keywords of articles of both selected journals are the type of partial match with MeSH Headings or Entry Terms, and then keywords that are consistent with Entry Terms. Conclusions: Despite the higher rate of consistent keywords of articles of the journal "J Dent (Tehran)" to the journal "Dent Res J (Isfahan)", the precision in the use of MeSH in both of the selected journal was not at a desirable level and the authors of the selected journals must have more attention in selecting their words index based on MeSH.