1) Number of papers by Iranian authors indexed by ISI during different years and world ranking of Iran’s contribution to advancement of nanosciences.
2) Production of nano-related papers by Iranians per capita (one paper per 100,000 people) and Iran’s world ranking according to this index.
3) Number of nano-related journal papers by Iranians per each one billion dollars of GDP. (GDP calculated on the basis of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)).
4) Nanotechnology portion in National Priority Index and Iran’s world ranking according to this index.
The portion is defined as the ratio of knowledge creation rate in nano-areas over the total rate of knowledge creation in a country.
5) Iran’s world ranking in number of paper citations in nanotechnology during different years
(Last updated in July 2008)
Extracted from ISI Web of KnowledgeSM
