Evaluation of Iran Scientific productions based on ISI statistics through 2006- 2007

Noroozi Chakoli         Abdolreza | Hasanzadeh         Mohammad | Nourmohammadi         Hamzehali

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=727
Date :  2008/08/05
Publish in :    Forth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics:Scientometrics and Science and Society & Ninth COLLNET Meeting


Keywords :Evaluation, Scientific, ISI, through

Abstract :

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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 condition 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. According to 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.