چکیده:
The goal of this paper is evaluation of published scientific documents of Islamic
Azad University (IAU) in WOS from the beginning until Feb. 2013. The method of
this study was extracting of all published IAU documents that have been indexed in
WOS in all field of Science, Social Science and Art & Humanity. Research
findings show that in this period, 18398 scientific documents have been published
by IAU that is about 12.42% of Iran’s total published scientific documents from
1956 until the present time. Clustering of the journals based on topic indicated that
22.72% of documents are related to Chemistry, 14.45% related to Engineering
Sciences, and 8.92% published in Physics. The increasing number of IAU
documents from Jan. 1999 until Feb. 2013 is significant. In 2012, the IAU reached
the first position of scientific documents production among all Iranian universities.
Most scientific collaborations of IAU in scientific publication have been with US,
followed by Malaysia, England, Germany, Turkey, and Australia. More than 4700
IAU documents have been published in 37 journals, 8 of them lack or have a poor
peer-review process. At the end, a number of suggestions for increasing quality of
IAU’s scientific documents have been offered.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract The goal of this paper is evaluation of published scientific documents of Islamic Azad University (IAU) in WOS from the beginning until Feb. 2013.
Rapid development of science and ever increasing number of scientific journals entails availability of standard criteria in order to select and index the most credible of them (journals with appropriate thematic and geographical coverage) in information database institutes.
Thereby, any published scientific document in journals indexed by Thomson Reuter's institute is considered as a scientific production in the context of academic publication.
In addition the research profile of Islamic Azad University (IAU) has been reviewed twice by other authors between 1999 to 2008 (Moosavi-chalak & Norouzi Chakli, 2010) and 1990 to 2007 (Taghizadeh & Vaziri 2010).
To this end, we surveyed scientific publication of IAU from the beginning of its launch (1982) until Feb. 2013 based on WOS data in terms of the following themes: 1- Contribution of IAU to science production in Iran.
Table 1 The number of Iranian and IAU Scientific Publications in Journals Indexed by Thomson Reuter ’s ISI During 1956-Feb 2013.
Table 4 Number of IAU Scientific Documents in Different Years Obtained from WOS of Thomson Reuters ISI Uniil Feb. 2013 {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Year Figure 1.
Collaboration of IAU with Universities of Other Countries in Science Production Table 5 shows the number of IAU's joint scientific publications in collaboration with scientists from different countries.
Table 6 shows a number of the WOS journals with the highest contribution to publication of IAU scientific documents.