The program for honoring Iran’s scieific leaders, which started in 2014 with the support of the Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy as a tool to improve the quality of the coury’s scieific research, this year is accompanied by changes in the process of selecting the winners, and for the first time, there is no ranking for the final winners. will not
According to RCO News Agency, Since 2015, Iran’s Scieific Leaders Program has been held annually as a facilitator to achieve scieific authority and improve the quality of research in the coury.
This year, on Sunday, November 20th, a ceremony will be held to iroduce and honor the winners of Iran’s Scieific Excellence Program by the National Science Foundation of Iran.
Ali Mohammad Soltani, the head of the National Science Foundation of Iran, called the aim of this program “to support and appreciate faculty members and scieists who have played a role in publishing the results of prestigious scieific research in prestigious publications” and stated: “This program started about 10 years ago in The Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy has been started and now its implemeation has been erusted to the National Science Foundation of Iran.
Appreciation of about 60 top professors
He added: In this period, which is the nih period of the implemeation of the Scieific Excellence Program, with minimal changes compared to previous years, about 60 professors with research dedication will be honored.
Works in reputable journals, a necessary condition in the evaluation process
According to the changes and special conditions of this year, having works published in reputable journals has been determined as a necessary condition for eering the evaluation process at the National Science Foundation of Iran; In this regard, Soltani announced: Considering that this year we had little time to impleme and finalize the process of this course, the same guidelines as the previous years with minor differences were approved by the scieific council of the foundation.
He added: To eer this program, faculty members must have quality works in magazines of groups A, B, C and D. The division of magazines from A to D has been done as in the previous periods.
Soltani, while emphasizing that if the researcher has succeeded in publishing one work in the journals of groups A, B and C, and two works in the journals of group D in 2023, he will be eligible to eer the evaluation process, adding: Also, articles that have citations are above, or those published by Iranian professors in collaboration with Nobel Prize winners and other prestigious iernational awards, also provide the conditions to eer this program.
Soltani also added: The above-meioned scieific works must have a score in terms of influence in iernational social media and have won a promine position in the normalized citation impact index.
New changes in the process of selecting and honoring the chosen ones
The head of Iran’s National Science Foundation poied out importa changes in the recognition program for faculty members and said: unlike the previous courses, no ranking will be done for the final winners in this course. This change has been made in order to create a fairer atmosphere and focus on the scieific quality of people.
He explained the new division of the winners of this course io three differe groups and announced: the first group includes people who have published their articles in mainstream magazines, the second group includes people who have published their articles in leading magazines, and the third group includes There are people who have published their articles in selected journals.
From the same studies to the use of a postdoctoral researcher
Soltani informed about the studies and special privileges considered for each of these groups and added: These privileges include the possibility of using a postdoctoral researcher, receiving a plaque and a memorial. The studies of each group are the same for all people in that group, although the scieific pois of the people are calculated according to specific guidelines.
Iroduction of three leading universities in the coury’s scieific reputation
Ali Mohammad Soltani regarding the program of Iran’s scieific leaders, which will be held on Sunday, November 20, 1403, by the National Science Foundation of Iran; He said: In this ceremony, with the presence of the preside’s vice preside for science, technology and knowledge-based economy, the coury’s science and technology directors, university presides and promine researchers, a certificate of appreciation and a letter coaining how to receive the scholarship will be preseed to the selected people of the coury’s scieific excellence program.
He poied to the iroduction of top universities in this program and said: In this ceremony, three universities that have gained the most pois in the field of scieific credit due to the active presence of their faculty members will be iroduced.
Selection based on the quality and quaity of published articles, without asking professors
The preside of the National Science Foundation of Iran, regarding the judging process of this program, in which about 60 members of the selected faculty will be iroduced; He explained: These selections are based on the publication of high-quality articles in the best scieific journals and include various fields of basic sciences, technical and engineering, and medical sciences.
Soltani also poied out that, corary to the usual routines in this program, no requests were received from professors and faculty members and the information was directly extracted from reliable databases such as Web of Science and other databases. He stated: The basis of selection is the quality and quaity of articles published by people.
Selection of the coury’s scieific leaders without prejudice and judgme
In the coinuation of his speech, he emphasized the transpare and scieific approach of this program and said: no judgmes have been made about individuals; Only based on the guidelines of the coury’s scieific leaders program, information has been collected from the databases. Of course, the works were evaluated because they were not discredited.
Soltani, in response to the question “In what specialized fields are the coury’s scieific leaders selected?” He admitted: The journals that have been iroduced in groups A, B, C and D in the past years in the form of the coury’s scieific leaders program, have differe scieific fields.
He added: Basic science disciplines have been given special atteion in this program due to their profound impact on the scieific developme of the world. However, the awardees include a variety of disciplines from basic sciences, medical sciences, and technical and engineering.
Good news for PhD studes; A new call is coming!
In the end, the preside of the National Science Foundation of Iran announced the publication of a call for support for doctoral dissertations in the most importa strategic technologies and said: In this call, which will be published soon, doctoral studes can benefit from special support. It is expected that this action will help speed up the research process and improve their scieific results.
According to the communication and information ceer of the vice preside’s science, technology and knowledge-based economy, more details of this call will be published next week.
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