- to me it's relevant that a country ranks 10 in a major subject that encompasses the laser tech field. Even if laser-related publications make 1/4 of these 1909 SJR registered papers published just in 2021, and laser-induced isotopic isolation of radioactive heavy elements amounts to 1/100, it shows us the local capability. Some countries had to hire foreigners because they had no local capable enough to do the job. We have an army of technical people. You can disagree.
- This is not how adversaries mark each other's, dangerous men. I once read a book written by a former high-ranking western spymaster, he said they start tracking people when they show potential to become dangerous in the future. I would assume they would have marked Fakhrizadeh as a potentially dangerous man when he was young and not the Prof. Dr. Fakhrizadeh the head of alleged Project Amad. Among the authors of these open source publications, that we are discussing, there could be a young scientist who might end up producing a hybrid centrifugation + Laser induction method with 200 SWU/year capacity future. Why point this hypothetical man/woman out? if someone is watching them already then let it be.
- You can use open source data banks as well like sciencedirect or google scholar. These ones do not have a country filter so you will have to go for author names. Not very hard to do tbh.