Scientometric Study of Migration of Iranian Scholars to the American Universities

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of Iranian elite migration to top American universities.Methodology: The present paper using Scientometric method and population included Iranian faculty in Ten top USA universities. Bibliographi information of the publications and citations of these scientists were extracted from the Scopus database.Findings: Research results show that 141 Iranian faculty members in medical of science, technical science, art & humanities science, basic science, are working in these universities. The most of these faculty members were graduates of Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran. Their publications before migration (0/39%) compared with after migration (99/61%) is very low. Scientific Exchange through scientific collaboration with Iranian faculty members was 4/23 percent. In terms of citation behavior, 0/136 percent cited Iranian and 99/864 percent cited non-Iranian works.

Keywords

• elite migration
• american universities
• scintometric
• scopus
• brain drain