2 Islamic World Contribution to Scientific Publication in WOS
during 2007-2009 By: Marzieh Goltaji Member of Islamic World
Science Citation Center (ISC)
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3 3 Introduction According to the dissemination of subject
fields of science, one country alone can not invest in all fields.
The quantity and the growth of scientific publications in a special
subject category can represent a country's strength in that
field.
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4 The indicators of ISI as a framework to evaluate the
scientific publications are applied in large scale by scientometric
specialists in many countries. Investigating the status of art in
scientific publications of Islamic countries during 2007- 2009, we
will be able to identify strengths and weaknesses and remove
deficiencies.
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5 The number of indexed scientific products and the number of
citations are considered as the most important indicators for
evaluating the scientific products of each country.
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6 The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the
second largest inter-governmental organization after the United
Nations which has membership of 57 countries spread over four
continents. Research population
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7 Ranking of the Islamic countries based on the number of their
publications
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8 8 rankcountryNumber of Publicationsrankcountry Number of
Publications 1Turkey69375 29 Cote Ivoire592 2Iran39269 30Benin533
3Egypt14149 31Mali454 4Malaysia10309 32Guinea418 5Pakistan9737
33Bahrain409 6Tunisia728534Libya386 7Nigeria663735Mozambique341 8
Saudi Arabia641936Gambia310 9Algeria434137Gabon301
10Morocco418538Albania297 11Jordan306339Yemen259
12Indonesia289040Niger234 13Bangladesh273041Kyrgyzstan205 14 U Arab
Emirates271542Brunei169 15Lebanon245643Tajikistan149
16Kuwait221344Togo138 17Uganda172745Afghanistan85 18Cameroon166646
Guinea Bissau78 19Uzbekistan115247Guyana65 20Oman111948Mauritania58
21Azerbaijan98849Chad47 22Senegal87950 Sierra Leone46
23Kazakhstan85751Maldives19 24Iraq74952Turkmenistan17
25Qatar74553Comoros11 26Syria68654Djibouti11 27Burkina
Faso68355Somalia5 28Sudan680
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9 Ranking of the Islamic countries based on the number of their
publications 53 %
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10 Growth rate of Islamic countries during 2007-2009
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11 The average annual growth for scientific publications
Negative Guyana Guinea Bissau Tajikistan Comoros Togo Maldives
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12 The average annual growth for scientific publications
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13 Turkey Ranked based on their publications Iran Egypt
Malaysia Pakistan The average annual growth for scientific
publications
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14 Ranking of the Islamic countries based on the number of
times cited
16 Ranking of the Islamic countries based on the number of
Times Cited 52 %
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17 Distribution of Islamic Countries' scientific publications
in 22 subject fields
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18 Findings indicate that: only in 2 subject fields all Islamic
countries had publications: Clinical medicine and Plant &
animal Science. Among the population of this research 32 countries
had publications in all fields.
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19 In All fields Turkey was in the first place except in 2
fields: Chemistry and Mathematics which Iran had better
performance. Egypt was in the third place in approximately half of
the fields, but in other fields some other countries allocated this
place to themselves.
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20 Malaysia in Computer Science and Environment/Ecology and
Multidisciplinary was in the third place, this country allocated
the second place to itself for Economic and business.
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21 Nigeria in Microbiology and Multidisciplinary was in the
second place among other Islamic countries. Uganda in Immunology
and Nigeria in Agriculture sciences, Psychiatry/Psychology and
Social Sciences, General were ranked in the third place.
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22 Top countries in some detailed subject categories
(sub-fields) Turkey and Iran had the best performance in most of
subject areas. Some other countries had functioned pretty well in
some few subject categories and they outran other Islamic
countries. In Biodiversity Conservation Indonesia and Malaysia have
functioned the best.
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23 In Ornithology Algeria and Nigeria allocated the top
positions to themselves. In Hematology, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
were ranked fourth and fifth, and were placed before Malaysia.
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24 The 6th place in Material science, Multidisciplinary was
allocated to Tunisia after Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Malaysia and
Algeria. Bangladesh allocated the fourth place to itself in Public,
Environmental & Occupational Health; in this subject, Iran,
Nigeria and Turkey were the best.
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25 Correlation between Islamic countries' publications and
their GDP The value of correlation was 0.781 which was significant.
It shows there is a strong correlation between them that indicates
countries with high GDP have more scientific publications.
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26 Conclusion As Findings show all Islamic countries are not
performing the same in different subject fields, if we know each
country in which fields is stronger than others we can plan to
collaborate in order to improve our country.
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27 Only 4.25% portion of total scientific publications belong
to Islamic countries during 2007-2009. Although Turkey and Iran
have the best performance among other Islamic countries, their
portion among the total scientific publications of the world during
the mentioned years is negligible.
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28 The importance of the assessment and evaluation of
scientific publications Represents the status of scientific
activities, It can be the useful and efficient element for program
management Identifying strengths and weaknesses that help planning
for further research in order to fill the gaps and compensate weak
points.
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29 Suggestions Increase of research and development budget
along with its optimum use and planning properly have resulted in
more publications. Recognizing the best countries in subject areas
and having collaboration with them would cause an increase in the
number of publications as well as improving countries in all
subject areas.
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30 The Necessity of Establishing Islamic World Science Citation
Center (ISC) Those scientific publications in different countries
that publish in national language have less chance to be evaluated
based on bibliometric indicators in this database.
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31 However, for the assessment of research activities or for
science policy making from a national or OIC region perspective,
ISI and Scopus can not be sufficient. We need our own citation
databases with a good coverage of the Islamic countries' journals
with no language bias.
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32 Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) is constructed
to give an opportunity to Islamic world countries to evaluate their
publications based on those indicators.