According to Mehr reporter, Dr. Peyman Salehi, at the meeting of presides of universities, higher education, research and technology institutions of the coury, which was held today, Saturday, 24th of Shahrivar, at the Abu Rihan Iernational Conference Ceer of Shahid Beheshti University, poiing out that in the seveh developme plan, reaching the scieific rank of 14 It has been predicted, he said: The graph of scieific rank shows that we had the highest acceleration of scieific growth in a period, but in rece years, the graph of the trend of scieific growth has flattened.
Stating that we are currely ranked 17th in Web of Science and 16th in Scopus, he said: Turkey, Brazil, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia are couries that are around us in the ranking.
Research Deputy Minister of Science stated that the decline in scieific growth in Azad Universities, the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Health was the same, and we observe a decline in scieific growth in all of them. This shows that something has happened in the coury that has caused this decrease in the growth of its science.
He added: In 2010, the allocation of the governme’s share of the budget to the Ministry of Science was 2 billion dollars, and in 1402, this amou reached 1 billion dollars.
The most importa reason for the decline in scieific growth
Emphasizing that the most importa reason for the decline in scieific growth is the issue of financing and iernational communication, Salehi coinued: The average budget in universities that are among the top 100 universities in the world is more than 1,400 million dollars, universities that rank between 100 and 200 have an average of 600 million dollars and universities ranked below 500 have an average budget of 400 million dollars. So there is a direct relationship between funding and ranking.
He stated: One of the goals of the 7th Developme Plan is to include 20 Iranian universities with a rank below 500 in one of the ranking systems. Currely, our university ranks below 500 in the QS5 ranking.
Emphasizing the determination of fixed income in the budget lines for research and technology, he said: In various laws, lines have been defined for the budget, such as allocating a share of tobacco revenue to the Ministry of Health. We also preseed to the Parliame an item in the budget of 1403 to allocate a perceage of condensate sales to the Supreme Council of Ataf, but it was not voted on the floor of the Parliame.
The Deputy Research Minister of Science emphasized: We do not say why one departme has a large budget and we do not. We must seek to increase our share. One way is that in the budget rules, we can bring a fixed perceage of customs revenue, export revenue, etc. to research and technology.
The share of research and technology in the gross domestic product in our coury was about half a perce in rece years
Emphasizing that higher education is differe from research and developme, he explained: According to the comprehensive scieific map of the coury, the share of research and technology in the GDP was supposed to reach 4% (2% governme and 2% private) by 1404. . The share of research and technology in the gross domestic product in our coury has been about half a perce in rece years.
Salehi said about the situation of the neighboring couries: the gross domestic product of some neighboring couries has reached one trillion dollars. With such investme, professors, researchers and studes of the coury are really fighting jihad.
Referring to the capacity of endowme, he said: We did not take the issue of endowme seriously, even though we have legal obligations in the field of endowme. In the statemes of the leadership, the ery of endowme io the field of higher education has been emphasized. In a period of time, Harvard University has donated 55 billion dollars. We also need to work more in the field of endowme and donation.
Research Deputy Minister of Science poied out the capacity of using the finance law and said: The use of finance capacity was also in Dr. Simai’s program. Universities can use up to 30 billion euros of finance.
Referring to the leadership’s agreeme to withdraw from the developme fund, he said: When the leadership agreed to the preside’s request to withdraw from the national developme fund, Dr. Simai wrote a letter to the preside. It is true that the salaries of nurses, arrears of farmers, etc. are importa, but atteion should also be paid to research and technology.
It is wrong to imagine the defense authority without the help of the university
Salehi stated: If we imagine that the issues of food security, defense authority, health and hygiene, environme protection and knowledge base happened without the cooperation of universities, it is wrong.
He poied out: It’s not like we haven’t done anything in the field of communication with the industry. We have 11 thousand 200 curre coracts related to the industry, the amou of which is 6 thousand billion Tomans. Currely, 140,000 people are working in the technology units and it has a high employme capacity.
Deputy Research Minister of Science:
We have not yet reached one article per faculty member
The research deputy of the minister of science stated that the issue of publishing scieific articles should not be placed in fro of industrial and technological activities and said: “We have not yet reached one scieific article per faculty member. We have 80,000 academic faculty members, but the publication of our articles is not that much.” .
Dr. Peyman Salehi also said in the panel of the chairmanship of the university presides’ meeting: “The most importa issue that we emphasize is the use of the capacity of articles 11 and 13 of the law on the jump of knowledge-based production.” In rece days, we had a meeting with Dr. Afshin, the preside’s scieific and technological assista. He is sensitive about this issue and wondered why universities have not used this capacity well so far.
Poiing out that there is a concern that the tax organization will not be under the burden of implemeing this legal provision, he said: I personally held meetings in some provinces with the presence of governors to use this capacity. The presence of the governors will help the provinces to take this issue seriously.
Referring to the issue of settleme of research coracts, the vice preside of research said: the settleme of accous of research coracts should be issued without applying any coefficie and monetary demand, provided that the university does not owe money to the social security organization. I personally have been involved in this issue for 20 or so years.
He added: The last thing we did in the previous governme in this regard was that a meeting of university presides was held with the then minister and the minister approved the coracts. But the social security organization did not fall under the burden. We are following this issue and I hope that this issue will be implemeed this year.
The Deputy Research Minister of Science emphasized that this year’s comprehensive research regulations should be implemeed and said: Universities should impleme it based on their iernal regulations. If the problem is financial resources, they should pay a fraction of it using their iernal regulations.
Emphasizing the importance of publishing scieific articles, Salehi said: Be careful not to put the issue of publishing scieific articles in fro of industry and society. These are not opposites.
He emphasized: “We still haven’t reached one scieific article per faculty member. We have 80,000 academic faculty members, but the publication of our articles is not that much.”
The Research Deputy of the Minister of Science said: We cannot build technology on a foundation that is not for us. The production of science and technology are in line with each other, not against each other.
He added: Even the curre promotion regulation has the same capacity to consider pois for various activities of academic staff members. It is enough for the universities to choose diverse members of their audit committee. Use people who write articles, are active in the field of technology, work in the field of humanities, and consider pois for each activity.
He emphasized: We have passed the issue of article quaity for many years. Writing articles and moving towards technology are mutually supportive.
