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The Technological Impact of Papers Published by Iranian Institutions: A Scientometric Analysis

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1 Assistant Prof., Medical Library and Information Science, Asadabad School of Medical Sciences, Asadabad, Iran.

2 Ph. D. Candidate in Medical Library and Information Science, Faculty of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

 
Besides scientific impact, papers can also achieve a technological impact that remains less known in the scientific community. Cited papers in the patents are considered as the index to measure the technological impact. This study aimed to analyze the technological impact of Iranian publications using co-authorship and co-word map, their evolution, the journals, and the subject areas of these publications. This applied research focuses on the quantitative study and visualization with a scientometric approach. The research population was all studies (4554 records) that were published during 2011-2020 in one of the Iranian institutions and had been cited by one of the international patents. The data collection tool was the SciVal database. CiteSpace and Excel spreadsheets were used to analyze the data. Of the 4,554 papers cited by the scholarly outputs that have been cited in patents e patents, most of them were published in collaboration with the USA (9%). Islamic Azad University and Tehran University of Medical Sciences (13% each) were the most active Iranian universities. The number of Iranian papers cited in patents had a downward trend from 686 in 2011 to 57 in 2020. RSC Advances journal was the first top journal to publish these papers. Of 27 subject areas, engineering (24.1%) was the first popular subject that patents cite in their publications. The cluster analysis of keywords identified 8 clusters, including “x-ray diffraction,” “animal,” “adult,” “escherichia coli,” “tissue engineering,” “coronavirus infection,” “neural network,” and “methane.” The technological impact of Iranian research has declined in recent years. It is suggested that research policymakers should consider scholarly outputs that have been cited in patents, which, in a way, shows the flow of knowledge to the industry and encourages researchers to produce such papers.
 

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International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)
Volume 22, Issue 2
April 2024
Pages 177-191
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  • Receive Date: 24 February 2023
  • Revise Date: 27 March 2024
  • Accept Date: 27 March 2024
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