Dr. Mehrad, president of the Regional Information Center for Science and Technology, describing the status of Iran’s scientific production in 2010 and 2011 said that Iran, Turkey and Singapore have respectively produced 25, 36 and 205 scientific articles per 100000 individuals. <br/><br/>According to Dr. Mehrad, Iranian scientists have published 400 articles in the international accredited journals during the first 15 days of the new year. <br/>
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Dr. Jafar Mehrad, President of the Islamic world Science Citation Center (ISC) said that the budget per capita for Research and Development in all the Islamic countries is 23.3 dollars which is much low compared to the world average (194 dollars) and the EU (524 dollars). Iran with 66.7 dollars ranks third among the Islamic countries after Turkey with 95.2 dollars and Malaysia with 70 dollars. <br/><br/>
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According to Prof. Mehrad, President of RICeST and ISC, the rank of Iran was 17 in Scopus citation database in 2010 and went a head of Turkey and reached to the first rank in the Region.<br/>Prof. Mehrad said: A purposeful investment in higher education, has led Iran’s science production in the new way. By establishing higher education courses and attracting more students in these courses, science production has been highly increased.<br/>
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