According to Mehr news agency, quoted by Vebeda, Dr. Yunus Panahi stated that in the latest review of the list of the most cited Iranian researchers in the world in 22 subject areas of science, 938 Iranian authors were identified, and said: 453 people from this list of researchers are affiliated with Universities of medical sciences of the country and affiliated institutions.
He added: In the scientific evaluation system of the scientific faculty members of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, Iranian researchers with the highest citations of 1% are identified and introduced, currently 278 faculty members have been identified, and this statistic will be updated soon. became.
The Vice President of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Health continued: Accordingly, the number of highly cited scientific researchers affiliated with the country’s universities of medical sciences and affiliated institutions in 2021 will be 222 and in 2022 there will be 287 people, which is a significant growth during this period. has had
Pointing out that one of the most important citation databases in the world is the Web of Science database, Panahi said: Clarivate Analytics database provides access to many databases, including the Web of Science, which provides research data such as references, citations of publications Valid, it includes conference proceedings and other documents.
He added: The Essential Science Indicator database also belongs to Calorivit Analytics, which announces the list of most cited researchers in a 10-year period.
The vice president of research and technology stated: Researchers in each field are sorted according to the number of citations they have received in the Web of Science database, and then the top one percent researchers are considered highly cited scientific researchers based on the citation threshold of ESI.
Dr. Panahi added: Therefore, the criterion for selecting researchers in this list is the number of citations made to their scientific productions. Based on this, researchers who have been able to achieve the highest level of international credit in terms of citations based on their research activities in the last ten years are included in the category of the most cited researchers of one percent of the world.
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