INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
institutions.Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of
transfer of scientific and cultural knowledge generated by the universities to the whole Society.The ranking is based on the three indices
Tehran tops the list of Iranian universities included in this ranking (295), followed by Tehran University of Medical Sciences (475), Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (648), Sharif University of Technology (660), Amirkabir University of Technology (759), Tarbiat
Modares University (795), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (864), Iran University of Science and Technology (909), Isfahan University
of Medical Sciences (931), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (935), and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (960).Harvard University,
Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, and the University of California Berkeley are the top five
universities worldwide in Webometrics.Scientific growthA review of Scopus global ranking in terms of the normalized citation index over the
past 10 years shows that Iran has moved up to 16th place in 2020 from 22nd in 2011.The ranking is based on the three indices of Visibility,
Transparency, and Excellence.Studies show that in 2021, the number of Iranian scientific articles indexed by the Scopus International
Citation Database has reached 77,351
This figure was equal to 71,971 in 2020 and 64,988 in 2019.The 2021 data have not been yet completed and the mentioned figure will increase
While scientific articles and the latest research findings of Iranian researchers in 2019 received about 0.08 percent more than the
Also, research activities resulting from Iran's international participation in science production were about 27.4 percent in 2019, which has
which reached 1.3 percent in 2020
This group of articles has the highest number of citations in the world of science.MG
