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1st ISC Meeting of Editors-in Chief of Research Journals

Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran23-24 October, 2012

Dr. Jafar Mehrad

President of RICeST & ISC

Scopus & Thomson Reuters

1. Both systems are highly reputed and index many number of international authoritative journals: Scopus about twenty thousand and Thomson Reuters around ten thousand research journals.

2. Although the systems have different approaches regarding citation analysis, both have significant roles in evaluating the scientific performance of countries.

3. These two systems have considered mostly English language journals, and recently journals that are published in languages other than English are included in SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters.

4. Both systems have abstracting and indexing services.

ISC1. As I pointed out, ISC does not have more than 5 years of experience.2. Islamic countries fully support ISC and this support is of utmost importance.

3. Lately, a number of non-Islamic countries such as Germany, England, India, and Poland have expressed their interest to get their journals indexed in ISC.

4. The entrance of the journals of non-Islamic countries to ISC has caused ISC to pass and go beyond the borders of Islamic World ,and consequently turn into an international indexing system.

5. ISC is multilingual and full text system that this strong point makes it different from the two other systems i.e. SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters.

Accordingly, ISC pursues its expansion and growth in several aspects:

1. Scientific Persian Journals (since 1999) were studied and analyzed in different ISC systems and products.

2. Research Arabic journals of Islamic countries (since 2005) were indexed and processed in different products of ISC.

3. In the third stage, Iran and other countries English scientific journals (since 2005), were processed and analyzed.

4. Indexing and processing Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, French and other national languages are ISCs next citation analysis priorities, which is being planned and along with the development of ISCs organization, will be implemented one after another.

5. ISC incorporates a number of sub-systems each targeting a specific objective. Having the ISC services at their disposal, the OIC countries may take the opportunity to utilize such services to instigate research-scientific cooperation within and between their countries.

6. ISC also enables scientific mapping of OIC universities with the objective to clarify the current research and scientific status of each member state. This sort of scientific mapping is a great help in production of map of science in the Islamic world.

YearArticleYearArticle19901902001209719912352002288419922582003392219934162004514719944852005687919956052006919819967162007133721997980200817271199812252009200071999130420102146420001746201126749Number of Articles in IranYearArticleYearArticle199011792001837019911400200210803199217342003131521993228020041631119942927200517455199534182006200841996440020072408919975174200824839199860502009277951999670420102824520006975201123916Number of Articles in TurkeyYearArticleYearArticle199042220011287199142520021493199242720031896199355420042043199472520052309199578920063004199679120073693199784920085833199810442009766319991238201082532000133320117741Number of Articles in MalaysiaYearArticleYearArticle19901875200130311991209820023256199219232003363719932074200435741994240720053606199524452006420119962663200749161997251320085326199826392009640219992624201065452000291520116425Number of Articles in Egypt

YearArticleYearArticle19901229200116281991130320021773199213482003188519931506200417821994156720051763199517152006188619961817200721251997178220082488199818422009295719991764201041282000182620115417Number of Articles in KSACountryArticlesIran166698Syria9295Malaysia7317Saudi Arabia4963Egypt4560Jordan4357Pakistan4306No. of Articles of Islamic Countries in ISC7. ISC has been ranking the Iranian universities and research institutions during the past two years. The criteria and indicators defined for the ranking system was approved in the Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research held in Riyadh, capital-city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 4-5 October, 2011.

SubjectNo. of title%Humanities and social sciences97588.95Engineering403.64Basic Sciences262.37Medical Sciences252.28Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine171.55Arts131.18 Total 1096100Table 1: Islamic countries Arabic journals indexed in ISCSubjectNo. of title%Humanities and social sciences38636.24Basic Sciences26825.16Medical Sciences17316.24Engineering14613.70Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine807.51Arts121.12Table 2: Islamic countries English journals indexed in ISC

Committees and councils of ISC

1. The steering Council of ISC

2. Executive Committee of ISC

3. Scientific Council of ISCwww.isc.gov.ir