Scientific status of Iran: case study of industrial engineering research (based on articles indexed in international scientific databases)

Abstract

Industrial engineering is one of the relatively new fields among engineering disciplines which has developed during recent years. This is true for Iran as well and this discipline has rapidly grown during the last decade. Studying the status of Iran regarding Industrial Engineering could facilitate identifying appropriate strategies for its future consideration. For this purpose, 87150 papers related to industrial engineering, published in the recent 50 years, were selected from 54 refereed journals. The required data including the name of countries relating to these papers were recorded in a database. The published papers during this period analyzed according to the geographical areas. The results showed that the majority of published papers were from North America, East Asia and West Europe. The ranking of Iran on the basis of cumulative data was 22. Then the number of articles published during the last 15 years was compared with neighboring countries the results indicate that Iran has the second position during the last years. In terms of growth rate, Iran has improved its position in recent years with the highest ranking in the region.

Keywords

• industrial engineering trend iran scientific position papers