The British Royal Society of Sciences says that Iran has the fastest scientific growth in the world.
Although the year 2010 and the number of articles published in prestigious scientific centers in the world by Chinese scientists showed that this country has narrowed its distance from the United States, statistics show that it is Iran that took the first scientific position in the world in 2010. have given.
Between 1996 and 2008, Iranian scientists have published 13,238 scientific articles, while this figure was 736 articles in the previous period, and this shows an eighteen-fold increase.
According to New Scientist magazine, scientific growth in Iran is eleven times the world average rate and faster than any other country. According to this publication, a review of the number of articles and scientific materials shows that Iran is ahead of all other countries in this field.
A data review and analysis center in Canada known as Science Metrics, by publishing a comprehensive analysis, has shown that a geopolitical shift in the field of science production is taking place in the world, and in this regard, the Middle East is one of the emerging fields of production. It is a science in which Iran and then Turkey are the main players. In general, the continent of Asia has surpassed the continent of America in scientific production.
Top areas of scientific growth in Iran
According to New Scientist magazine, scientific growth in Iran is eleven times the world average rate and faster than any other country. According to this publication, a review of the number of articles and scientific materials shows that Iran is ahead of all other countries in this field.
Over the past years, Iranian authorities have repeatedly emphasized the country’s scientific growth and have used expressions such as “ascent to the lofty peaks of scientific honors” to show their seriousness in academic academic progress. This policy is not unique to the policies of recent governments because the scientific growth related to Iran’s chemical and nuclear industries based on statistics is the result of decades of work and focus on such programs.
Based on the studies, the growth of studies and as a result the increase in the number of Iranian scientific articles in international publications shows some scientific fields more prominently. Fields such as nuclear chemistry, particle physics and nuclear engineering are among these. According to New Scientist, citing the Data Review Center in Canada, the number of articles by Iranian scientists in the field of nuclear engineering has grown 250 times the global average rate. This growth is also noticeable in the fields of medicine and agricultural research.
New Scientist writes that although the relationship between the governments of Iran and the United States has pitted them against each other, apparently this hostility has not had a negative effect on the relationship between Iranian and American scientists, because the publication of joint articles between the scientists of the two countries increased fivefold between 1996 and 2006, and from The figure of 388 has reached 1831 cases.
In the meantime, some observers and scientific experts say that the significant growth in the number of scientific articles published in foreign journals should not cause neglect of the fact that the emphasis on the quantity reduces the necessary attention to the quality of the articles.
Overcoming quantity over quality?
Ali Manshesari, a professor of social technical systems from Stevens University in America, told BBC Farsi that scientific growth should be looked at both positively and with caution in a negative way. According to Mr. Manshesari
The overall scientific growth in Iran in the last two or three decades is quite positive, but the negative side of the work is that “scientists usually write articles for the growth of science and not to increase the number of published articles, while for those involved in Iran, the aspect Numeracy is more important, and in general, the culture of quantity prevails over the culture of quality.
In explaining this situation, Mr. Mansharari said: “Most Iranian articles were published in publications that have low standards. In top journals, the number of Iranian articles is less. In the field of medical research and biotechnology, the articles written in Iran are of very good quality.
The current scientific equation in the world
The rapid growth of scientific articles in Iran, India and other countries such as China does not mean that the balance of the distribution of science has fundamentally changed, because America, Europe and Japan still maintain their superiority in this field, but this superiority with the emergence of countries Industrialization is under threat. Countries like China and India have increased the speed of presenting their scientific articles, and Brazil is also one of the leading countries in this field.
A new research shows that after surpassing the United Kingdom, the second largest producer of scientific research, China will be able to progress faster than the United States in two years. Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith, lead author of the study, says: “Given how much China invests in research and development, I’m not surprised to see this result.”
Since 1999, the Chinese government has increased the amount of investment in this field by twenty percent annually, and this figure has now reached more than 100 billion dollars.
In 2006, about one and a half million Chinese students graduated from universities in engineering fields.
This is the conclusion of a major research conducted by the British National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society.
Considering the existing equation, some experts believe that the supremacy of the main countries such as the United States, Japan, and EU member states will be maintained, but the set of countries that are scientifically emerging will expand.
