44 Iranian institutions among top Islamic World scientific entities

According to the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), 486 institutes have been evaluated in 2016 by ITU, including 109 institutes from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

ITU assesses institutions in the Islamic World based on five quality-related indices before ranking them and announcing their names.

The ITU indices include citation ratios of 1%, 10% and 50% in top-quality journals as well as the scientific cooperation ratio among compatriot and international institutions.

Based on this report, the University of Tehran ranks first in Iran as long as the citation ratios are concerned, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences stands on top for the scientific cooperation ratio it represents.

Iran and Turkey with 44 institutions each ranked based on the ITU system, represent the highest number of institutions assessed.

Egypt and Malaysia each with 17 institutions, Pakistan with 12 and Saudi Arabia with 10 institutions come next in the list.

The ITU ranking system obtain the data it needs to make its assessments from the Scopus which is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including the scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

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