TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran holds 30 percent of scientific achievements in the Middle East, said Iranian Deputy Health Minister for Research and Technology Reza Malekzadeh."Iran holds 30 percent of scientific achievements in the Middle East and 1.5 percent in the world," Malekzadeh said.
According to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data in 2014, there are 60.000 top researchers across the world working in different fields, 88 are from Iran and 18 of whom are working on medical areas.
According to Maleskzadeh, out of 25.000.000 million papers in the world, 245.000 belong to Iran, 32 percent of which are on medical areas.
Iran stood 13th in the world and 1st in the region in terms of publishing papers in 2013.
According to the statistics, Iran produced over 39,000 articles in 2013, which gained the country the worlds 17th rank in science production and fixed its top position in the region, above Turkey.
The promotion is mainly due to the achievements at the two areas of medical researches and medical technology of Irans Pasteur Institute.
Irans scientific progress was the result of the countrys recent policies and programs to develop knowledge and facilitate researchers' access to the worlds top academic resources.
Assessing and promoting research centers and universities of medical sciences as well as launching some 50 new research centers were among the activities that have paved the way for the countrys science improvement, according to the report of the Iranian Health Ministry's Center.
In 2000, the Islamic Republic ranked 53rd in the world in terms of highly cited medical articles, but improved to the 23rd rank in 2011.
According to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Iranian researchers and scientists published a total of 60,979 scientific articles in major international journals from 1999 to 2008.
Irans 2009 growth rate in science and technology was highest globally, being 11 times faster than the worlds average rate.
By ISNA
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