About 14% share of Iranian women in the reports of highly cited researchers – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to RCO News Agency, Dr. Seyed Ahmed Fazelzadeh; While congratulating on the birthday of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (PBUH) and celebrating Mother’s Day and Women’s Day, the head of Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute (ISC) said: Women are an important part of society that play a role in the progress of human societies. According to the Supreme Leader, from the point of view of Islam, there is no difference between men and women in spiritual movement and human excellence and achieving a good life. Physical differences, both have intellectual and practical abilities and innovations and infinite talents, which makes a woman, like a man, able and in some cases it is obligatory in various fields and activities, scientific, political, play a social, economic, international, cultural and artistic role”.

The head of ISC Institute said: One of the indicators of scientific authority is the number of highly cited scientists in each country. Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute (ISC), as an internationally recognized institution, is responsible for monitoring and monitoring the science and technology of Iran, the region and Islamic countries. is in charge In this regard, this institute identifies and introduces the best researchers with many references every year.

He said: Iranian female researchers have a special place in the field of scientific authority at the national and international level. The list of highly cited researchers is announced every year in the international citation databases of Weboscience, Scopus and ISC. According to the latest report of Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute, there are 665 highly cited Iranian female researchers among 4818 highly cited Iranian researchers, which constitute 13.80% of the highly cited researchers in the country.

He continued: Table number one shows the number of highly cited researchers in the top one percent, the top two percent of the working period, the top two percent of one year and the most cited researchers of the ISC database: humanities, social sciences, art and architecture, as well as the share of women. According to the table, female highly cited researchers have the largest share of top one percent researchers.

Table 1. The number of highly cited researchers in each of the reports

The head of ISC Institute added: Table 2 shows the general situation of highly cited Iranian women researchers in macro-organizational affiliations. Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education with 57.29% has the largest organizational share of highly cited Iranian female researchers.

Table 2. Frequency distribution of highly cited Iranian female researchers in macro organizational affiliations

Fazelzadeh said: According to the latest report of the Islamic World Science and Technology Citation and Monitoring Institute, in the list of 1% researchers in the world based on the ESI database, there are 177 Iranian female researchers in 15 subject areas of agricultural sciences, clinical medicine, biology and biochemistry. , chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, neuroscience and psychology, engineering, materials science, psychiatry/psychology, computer science, molecular biology and genetics, social sciences, general sciences, physics, plant sciences and Zoology, immunology and some have obtained the necessary points in several fields.

The head of the ISC Institute further said: According to the “Stanford University List” which was conducted by a number of researchers from Stanford University and the Elsevier Institute by analyzing the data of the Scopus database, 73 highly cited Iranian women researchers are in the top two percent of the world (service performance) in 8 fields. A subject of clinical medicine, chemistry, biomedicine, strategic technologies (artificial intelligence, nano, etc.), biology, physics and astronomy, information and communication technology, engineering and 375 women. Highly cited Iranian researcher in the top two percent of the world (one-year performance) in 13 subject areas of clinical medicine, biomedicine, chemistry, engineering, agriculture, fisheries and forestry, strategic technologies (artificial intelligence, nano, etc.), information and communication technology, earth sciences and environment, physics and astronomy, public health and health services, biology, statistics and mathematics, communication and textual research have obtained the necessary points.

Fazelzadeh added: Using the data indexed in the ISC database, the ISC Institute identifies highly cited Iranian researchers in humanities, social sciences, art and architecture. In the latest announcement list of this institution, Highly cited researchers have been introduced in the period of 10 years (1401-1392). The criteria for selecting researchers in this list is the number of citations made to their scientific productions. 40 female researchers in 14 subject areas of humanities, social sciences, art and architecture, including psychology, sociology and political science, language and linguistics, business, management and accounting, art and architecture, theology and Islamic education, educational sciences, philosophy, others , historical sciences, social sciences, geographical sciences, information science and epistemology, language and literature got the necessary points.

For information about the report Highly cited Iranian female researchers Refer to the ISC website (here).