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Introduction: Heart disease or cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a kind of illness that involve heart and/or blood vessels of people throughout the world. The major aim of current study was to show the trend of global scientific activities in the field of CVD during a period of 10 years through 2001-2010. Methods: A scientometrics analysis was carried out to show the world wide activities towards scientific production in the field of CVD during a period of 10 years. Science Citation Index- Expanded (SCI-E) was used to extract all documents indexed as a topic of CVD throughout 2001- 2010. Results: Analysis of data showed that the number of publications in the field of cardiovascular has increased steadily. The number of publication indexed in SCI-E in 2010 was three times greater than in 2001. It reached from 5080 documents in 2001 into 15,584 documents in 2010. English consisting 95% of total publication was the most dominant language of publications. Based on Bradford scatterings law the journal of Circulation was the most prolific journal among core journals. The USA sharing 29.5% of world’s profiles in the field was the most productive country Harvard University was the most productive Institution followed by Brigham Women’s Hospital. Conclusion: The vast majority of scientific publication in the field of CVD was produced by authors from North America and Western Europe. The results of study concluded that research activities in the field of CVD have become an interesting subject area of scientists during years 2001-2010.

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Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of various kind of mental disorder such as diagnosis, treatment, prevention of mental and emotional disorders. In the contemporary world we witness a lot of casualties that lead to the human mental disorder but there are very little evidences to show the trend of psychiatry researches in the world.The objective of this study is to depict the scientific production of scientists in the field of psychiatry for a period of 10 years. The database of Web of Science (WoS) was used to extract all publication under the topic of psychiatry throughout 2000 – 2009.The study showed that the USA with producing more than 38% of world profiles in the field is the most prolific country followed by England (10.72%) and Germany (10.67%). English is the dominant language of publications. The majority of publications (68%) are in the form of journal articles. Harvard University with sharing 3.37% of world publications in the field is the most active university followed by Columbia University (2.20%) and Yale University (2.07%) respectively. Based on the Bradford law the Journal of Psychiatric Services is the most productive one among core Journals in the field.

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