Iran shines in ISI rankings

TEHRAN, Sep. 23 (MNA) – Head of ISC announced that Iran’s place in world rankings in different scientific scales such as engineering and chemistry have considerably improved. Head of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) Ja’far Mehrdad announced that Iran has ranked 16 in engineering and 19 in chemistry in the rankings of Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Iran has submitted about 26 thousand articles in the field of engineering to which 106,542 references have been made. Ja’far Mehrdad noted that Iran holds a significant place in the world rankings in different scientific scales based on ESI documentation and said, “Iran's scientific production is quite notable in chemistry. During the past 10 years, Iranian scientists have achieved the ranking of 19 among 140 countries.” The first ranking belongs to the USA with more than 200 thousand articles submitted. The next rankings belong to China, Japan, German, India, France, Russia, Spain, England and South Korea respectively. Between the ranking of 11 and 19, which belongs to Iran, there are countries such as Italy, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, Poland and Sweden. Iran has taken wide strides in science and technology, particularly in medical and medicinal fields, in recent years. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960, maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals. This database allows a researcher to identify which articles have been cited most frequently, and who has cited them.