Iran Ranks 1st in Mideast, 21st in World in Genetics

Scimago Institutions Rankings, a science evaluation source to assess worldwide universities and research-focused institutions, has released the data of the Middle-Eastern countries’ ranking in 2017.

Based on the report, Iran stood atop the Middle-Eastern states in genetics with 537 documents, 515 citable documents and 259 citations in international papers.

The report added that Iran has outpaced Israel (Occupied Palestine), Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Syria, Kuwait, Palestine, Yemen and Bahrain in genetics in the Middle-East in 2017.

Also, the report said that Iran ranked 21st in the world in genetics in 2017 with the same number of documents, citable documents and citations in international papers.

Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari announced early in December that Iran stood atop the nations of the region in the production of science and technology.

“Now, Iran ranks first in the region in science and technology,” Sattari said, addressing a forum on stem cells in Tehran.

Also, in June, Sattari underlined that Iran’s international ranking in science production had risen from 34th to 16th.

“Iran ranks first in West Asia in terms of science output with the number of its college students rising to 4.8 million from 2.4 million,” Sattari said, addressing the second Iran-Europe Cooperation Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

He reiterated that Iran had made great progress in the fields of biotechnology, renewable energy, nanotechnology and stem cells.