Comparative analysis of scientific productions of 5 top industrial universities of Iran in Web of Science during 2000- 2009

Sharifi، Sharhzad | Noroozi Chakoli         Abdolreza

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=5608
Date :  2011/09/20
Publish in :    7th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 12th COLLNET meeting, 20- 23 September


Keywords :Comparative, industrial, universities, Science, during

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Abstracts The purpose of this research is to compare the status of world scientific productions of top industrial universities of Iran in Web of Science during 2000-2009. This research is a type of scientometrics which uses indicators as the number of scientific productions, document types, language types, subject areas, the most important coopareting countires to analyze scientific productions of Sharif University of Technology, Isfahan University of Technology, Amir kabir University of Technology, Iran Universirty of Science and Technology, Khaje nasir toosi University of Technology that are indexed during 2000- 2009 in WOS. The results show that the share of scientific productions of these Universities was 19/67 percent from the total of scientific productions of Iran. Base on the rate of scientific productions, Sharif University of Technology has ranked above the other universities. Most scientific productions of these universities of Technology published in English language and in article form. In analyzing subject areas, the results indicated that Sharif University of Technology in Material science, Multidisciplinary, and Amir kabir University of Technology in Polymer Science ranked higher than other Universities of this research. Dehghan, M was most active author with 242 productions and 26 h-index amongst authors of these industrial universities. The researchers of Sharif University had 1240 articles in collaboration with reserachers of other countries.These universities had most scientific collaboration with America, Canada and England. The results show that scientific productions are increasing in fields of Technical-engineering. If the rate of scientific productions continue to increase in the future, will lead to raise funds, scientific collaboration, information exchange with top Universities of other countries. Keywords: Scientific production, scientometric, Industrials Universities of Iran, Sharif University of Technology, Amir kabir University of Technology, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran Universirty of Science and Technology, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology