Evaluation of Iran scientific productions based on ISI statistics during 2006- 2007

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

mohammad hasanzadeh ¹ , abdalreza nourozi chakely ²

1 - Department of Library and Information Science, Tarbiat Modares University; Colleague of Scientometrics Department, National Research Institute for Science Policy
2 - Department of Library and Information Science, Shahed University; Head of Scientometrics Department, National Research Institute for Science Policy

Received: 2008-05-30 Accepted : 2008-09-06 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Iran, ISI, Scientific productivity, Web Of Science (WOS), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Art & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI),

Abstract :

Using indicators and statistics of ISI, this paper comparatively evaluates Iran indexed scientific productions through 2006 to 2007. According to the number of indexed scientific production in WOS, Iran is in a good situation in terms of the growth rate. Tehran University had the most scientific productions in WOS in 2007. Also, according to the statistics of ESI, Iran is in the second place after Turkey among Islamic countries and is in the fortieth place in the world, during the last ten years. Most of the scientific productions of Iran was indexed in SCIE section of WOS and published in English "article" formats. Based on JCR statistics, three Iranian Journals in 2005 were indexed in SCI section of this database and three more journals were added to it in 2006. Shiraz University had the most journals in JCR in 2006.  

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