28 Dec 2020 09:56
With a scientific publication growth rate of 10.4 percent in 2019, Iran ranked second among the top 25 countries in the world, next to China with a growth rate of 12.9 percent, according to the Web of Science website. In 2000, Iran's share of scientific productivity was only 0.1 percent, while in 2019 reached about 2 percent with a 20-fold increase in both Scopus and WoS citation databases. According to statistics released by the International Web of Science Database, Iran's citation rank has always been on the rise over the last eight years, from 24 in 2012 to 16 in 2019.