Astana Medical University NJSC invites faculty members, master’s students and doctoral students to participate in an intensive workshop under the Visiting Professor programme, led by Prof. Dr. Amin Tamadon, Professor of Biological Sciences.

The workshop aims to develop scientific writing skills and prepare participants to publish in internationally ranked journals. Participants will learn the key principles of academic writing, literature searching and analysis, and narrative review preparation.

Topic: Bibliometric Analysis

Format: Intensive workshop

Dates: 12-16 october 2026

Time: 13:30–18:30

Language of instruction: English

Target audience: Faculty members, master’s students and doctoral students of Astana Medical University NJSC who are interested in developing their scientific writing skills and increasing their research publication output.

Venue: coworking space, 53 Beibitshilik Street, Astana.

Join the WhatsApp group via the following link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JTJJONXUoAMFgHIysv4qYZ

Five-Day Workshop Programme

Day 1 (21 September) — Session 1: Introduction to Bibliometrics

• Citation metrics, h-index and co-authorship
• Databases: Scopus and Web of Science (WoS)

Day 2 (22 September) — Session 2: Data Collection and Cleaning

• Data export formats
• Data cleaning in Excel and R

Day 3 (23 September) — Session 3: Bibliometrix in R

• Descriptive analysis
• Publication trends
• Most productive authors

Day 4 (24 September) — Session 4: Network Analysis

• Co-authorship networks
• Keyword analysis
• Thematic maps

Day 5 (25 September) — Session 5: Visualisation and Scientific Writing

• VOSviewer
• Manuscript preparation
• Assignment

To participate, please register by 4 October 2026 using the following link: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMjzBRcDdk6hWScft3rltrLbckdnR5r7aS1yTiwg5xAf1HVQ/viewform