Abstract:
This article deals with the establishment of the Islamic World Science Citation
Center (ISC) as the first citation system in the Islamic countries. It attempts to
describe the mapping of ISC the way it has been established. At the time being,
ISC has begun to evaluate the research performance of the Islamic countries. The
required research journals from the Islamic countries are being collected and
processed in different subsystems of ISC. The languages used by ISC, at present,
include Farsi (Persian), Arabic and English
Machine summary:
The Islamic World Science Citation Center: A New Scientometrics System for Evaluating Research Performance in OIC Region J.
Therefore, Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST) has begun implementing scientometrics tools similar to those of citation systems in order to be able to evaluate the research performance of the Islamic world scientists and provide the grounds for implementing the Islamic world scientific network.
Citation indexing is used in systems like ISI, Scopus and Google Scholar for evaluating the research performance of the countries via assessing journals as the most significant sources of scientific and research productions.
To achieve this purpose, ISC is to process the Islamic countries research journals published in different languages (Mehrad & Maghsoodi, 2006).
After ISC was accepted at 9" ISESCO General Assembly, Rabat, Morocco, RICeST studied for the Arabic and English journals published by universities and higher education centers of Islamic countries in order to consider them for inserting in ISC.
ISC makes available the scientific journals of the Islamic countries as an integrated system to the universities and research institutes.
Regional Information Center for Science and Technology in 2001started to construct the citation databases for the Islamic countries called ISC, and released its services from January 2004.
At present, ISC databases provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in approximately 1352 titles of the Islamic countries scientific journals covering engineering, science, agriculture, medicine and humanities’ disciplines.