Maryam Okhovati; Mahmood Nekoueimoghadam; Mohammadreza Amiresmaili; Mina Moradzadeh; Mahmood Moosazadeh
Volume 10, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 79-89
Abstract
Introduction: Obtaining top academic position among countries of the Middle East and having advancedknowledge and ability to produce knowledge are among the most important goals set in Iran’s twenty-yearvision. Present study aimed to determine impact factor of specialized and technical journals ...
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Introduction: Obtaining top academic position among countries of the Middle East and having advancedknowledge and ability to produce knowledge are among the most important goals set in Iran’s twenty-yearvision. Present study aimed to determine impact factor of specialized and technical journals of Iran and tocompare with selected countries and provide appropriate recommendation.Methods: In this comparative study which was conducted through cross-sectional method in winter 2012,impact factor and quantitative indices of some Iranian published journals were compared with journals oftwenty five countries. Countries were selected based on Islamic Republic of Iran’s vision. A checklist wasused for data collection whose validity was confirmed using expert opinion and its reliability was 100%;because the variables were objective and consensus was present between two researchers on dataextraction. Required data were extracted from 2009 and 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Mean ofImpact factor was obtained for each country using descriptive statistics. Finally, the countries were rankedbased on total scores acquired by each country.Results: Twenty five studied countries had 1440 and 1507 specialized and technical journals with 87(6.04%) and 124 (8.23%) ISI indexed in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Growth of published journal in Iran,Turkey and Pakistan was 9.7%, 4.5% and 2.1%, respectively in 2010 compared to 2009; however, thisnumber for 2010 ISI indexed journals for Armenia, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran was 200%, 58.1%, 57.1%and 36%, respectively.Conclusion: Turkey, Iran and Pakistan with 20, 14 and 9 points, respectively were the first three countriesamong twenty five studied countries based on science production indices. This study indicated that Iranianscholars had lots of efforts in producing science in recent years, with considerable advances every yearcompared to previous year. To achieve goals of twenty-year vision, considering ISI standards, easy accessof scholars to paper and journals and publishing joint papers should be placed in the agenda of theauthorities and process owners
