Scientific revolution in Iran!

[Abii]

In 2010 Science-Matrix reported that Iran is showing the "fastest scientific growth of any country."

Now there are more details coming out and it seems Iran's scientific output has officially surpassed Turkey's in 2011.

When Science Watch last examined a selection of Middle Eastern nations seven years ago (14[6]:1-2, November/December 2003), Iran was in the midst of a distinct rise in its output of scientific publications, surpassing Saudi Arabia but still trailing Egypt. Since then, Irans annual publication count has increased sharply, markedly outstripping that of Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations whose output has risen more gradually in recent years.

As it happens, in recent years Iran has moved rapidly toward parity, in terms of scientific output, with Israel and Turkey. In fact, graph 1 (to the right), which tracks the year-by-year output of Thomson Reuters-indexed papers from the five most-prolific nations in this survey, shows that Iran produced nearly 15,000 papers in 2009. This compares to Israels 2009 total of roughly 12,000 papers and Turkeys total of around 22,000. Although Israel accounted for a greater number of papers during the collective five-year period from 2005 to 2009approximately 58,000 compared to Irans 45,000clearly Iran is ascendant in output.

2010 Nov/Dec - Middle East Revisited: Iran's Steep Climb - ScienceWatch.com - Thomson Reuters

2009:
Iran: 15000
Turkey: 22000
Israel: 12000

2010:
Iran: 25494
Turkey: 29508
Israel: 14905

2011 (so far):
Iran: 4792
Turkey: 4502
Israel: 2636

In terms of output, Iran has progressed from a low base of publications in the international journal literature of just 5,034 in 1996 to 20,244 in 2008. This 18-fold relative increase outstrips that of any other country in the OIC (see Figure 1). Moreover, Iran has matched this increase in output with an increase in field-weighted citation impact over the same period, as have several other OIC member states (see Figure 2).

 

[Abii]

Keep underestimating Iran.
Iran is a great nation but the mullahs are dragging Iran down. If you try to get past that you will realize the true potential of Iran. Iran's oil production has been falling for some time due to a lack of investment and new discoveries. Iran also has the second biggest nat gas reserves on the planet and they are virtually untapped. Iran's undiscovered oil fields (the Americans have been busy in the past 32 years applying the latest techs to find new fields in arab countries while in Iran new discoveries have been very limited) plus its extremely large gas fields, combined with the scientific growth can help Iran leap frog in the next couple of decades. If the regime changes and the sanctions are removed, Iran can become one of the top 6 economies on the planet in absolutely no time. Afghanistan, Pakistan etc... will all benefit from this.

 

[Leader]

nobody is keeping Iran down, its probably the current government that has raisen Iran's value infront of the muslim world least to say.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Well done Iran

 

[Abii]

nobody is keeping Iran down, its probably the current government that has raisen Iran's value infront of the muslim world least to say.

Trust me, when the mullahs go, Iran will become another south Korea within a decade.
3 million barrels of oil will be increased to around 7-9 million within a decade.
Gas exports will start.
foreign investment will come in like crazy. Iran has an extremely educated pop'n compared to other Islamic countries (except Turkey which is the same as Iran) and its people are very liberal and capitalist and foreign companies will see this as an opportunity.

When the econ is growing under 4 rounds of sanctions, just think how much faster it can grow without the sanctions, much needed foreign tech and investment, higher oil and gas sales etc...
Iran will boom if the mullahs go.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Trust me, when the mullahs go, Iran will become another south Korea within a decade.
3 million barrels of oil will be increased to around 7-9 million within a decade.
Gas exports will start.
foreign investment will come in like crazy. Iran has an extremely educated pop'n compared to other Islamic countries (except Turkey) and its people are very liberal and capitalist and foreign companies will see this as an opportunity.

When the econ is growing under 4 rounds of sanctions, just think how much faster it can grow without the sanctions, much needed foreign tech and investment, higher oil and gas sales etc...
Iran will boom if the mullahs go.

So why don't Iranians go for an uprising to uproot the current regime?

 

[below_freezing]

The mullahs aren't the worst Iran could've been stuck with. Just look west to the arabs. If Iran had been stuck with a guy like Saddam, haha.

 

[Abii]

So why don't Iranians go for an uprising to uproot the current regime?

A) because people aren't hungry

B) living standards are much higher in IRan compared to Egypt, Tunisia etc... For example Iran is 13 spots higher than even Turkey in the Huma n Development Index.

c) Fear of the unknown. The popular revolution last time turned into an Islamic revolution. In a jungle, the fittest will survive. In Iran the fittest and most organized groups are extremist Islamic groups. Political parties of all sorts have been banned and in some ways completely destroyed over the last 32 years.

People are hoping for a China like evolution instead of another revolution. When I say the mullahs need to go, I mean an evolution within the regime where nationalism replaces emphasis on Islam and backwardness. In Iran, believe it or not, the mullahs are on their way out. Ahmadinejad is the first of the nationalist-Islamist leaders and many many more will come. Each one will be more nationalist than the previous one.

Just to give you an example, Nejad wanted to celbrate Norouz in Persepolis, the ancient ceremonial capital of the first Persian dynasty that conquered most of the known world at the time. This shocked almost all Iranians. The mullahs stopped him and many raised their voice. Nejad has been trying to stop the religious police as well but to no avail. He is still a mofo but he's the start of smtg new within the regime.

 

[Kompromat]

Wait for 500 to arrive he must have some "differentials".

 

[Abii]

Wait for 500 to arrive he must have some "differentials".

well I'm using western sources such as scientific-matrix and science watch. Plus most of the papers Iran produces are sent to Western journals and are peer reviewed by American and European scientists. There is nothing to dispute. Very soon Iran and Turkey will double Israel's output. Iran's growth is 11 times the world average so...

 

[Skull and Bones]

The way Iran is doing with the sanctions on is mind blowing, there's a prosperous Iran waiting in the future.

 

[Abii]

The mullahs aren't the worst Iran could've been stuck with. Just look west to the arabs. If Iran had been stuck with a guy like Saddam, haha.

saddam actually wasn't that bad in the begining. At one point they were the bread basket of the Arab world and produced the most scientists and PHD holders in the Middle East. Everything went to shi t when he attacked Iran and Kuwait. This is what happens when one man rules a country. When he goes insane, he takes down the whole neighborhood. Same thing is happening in KSA and Bahrain today.

 

[Abii]

The way Iran is doing with the sanctions on is mind blowing, there's a prosperous Iran waiting in the future.

hopefully the Islamist pigs meet their creators sooner than later so we can erase some of the lost time with increased oil production. They're like parasites. Their brains work in mysterious ways that nobody can really understand.

 

[Abii]

January 2011 / Andrew Plume

A rebirth of science in Islamic countries?

The Islamic Golden Age a period that spanned the 7th to the 13th centuries A.D. saw a flourishing of scholarship in the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, which at their greatest extent stretched across North Africa and the Middle East. Contrary to traditional views of Islamic science in this era as a mere preserver of ancient knowledge from Greek and Roman sources, the Golden Age is now understood by scholars to have laid the foundations of modern science hundreds of years before the Scientific Revolution that began in Europe in the 16th century. The Islamic Golden Age produced important empirical discoveries in optics, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics (including the invention of algebra) and medicine and Muslim doctors even invented a form of medical peer review, in which visiting physicians filed their patient case notes with a panel of local doctors, who then reviewed the standard of care.

Shifting sands: Reawakening a scholarly tradition

The Golden Age eventually ended as a result of instability brought about by the Crusades from the West and Mongol invasions from the East. After centuries in the doldrums, is it now possible that a new wind has begun to blow in favor of Islamic science (that is, scientific research originating from the Islamic world; see below)?

The map of the Islamic world has shifted since the days of the Caliphs. Since 1969, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has represented the interests of self-identifying Muslim nations of the world. Membership currently stands at 57 countries, and for the purposes of this article these will be considered as defining the modern Islamic world.

In the Golden Age, Baghdad was the political capital and seat of learning of the Abbasid Caliphate. At its intellectual heart was the House of Wisdom. This library and translation institute was destroyed in the Mongol sacking of Baghdad in 1238, during which priceless manuscripts were thrown into the River Tigris in such quantities that the waters were said to have run black with the ink from their pages.

Today, Baghdad remains the center of scientific production in Iraq, with the University of Baghdad accounting for almost 20% of the 1,281 articles produced in Iraq in the period 200408. However, todays premier knowledge-producing institute across all OIC countries is the University of Tehran in Iran, with well over 1,500 articles published in the journal literature covered in Scopus. Although only inaugurated in 1934, the University of Tehran draws on a tradition of higher education stretching back over many centuries.

Iranian science in focus

Of all of the OIC countries, Iran best exemplifies the renewed spirit of scientific enquiry (as previously featured in Research Trends in December 2009). Indeed, measures of both input and output into the research system are showing very positive trends: Gross Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) rose from 0.55% to 0.67% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 2001 and 2006, ranking it among the strongest performers in the OIC on this statistic in recent years (see Table 1).

Country Year GERD as a percentage of GDP
Tunisia 2005 1.02
Turkey 2007 0.72
Pakistan 2007 0.67
Iran 2006 0.67
Morocco 2006 0.64
Malaysia 2006 0.64
Mozambique 2006 0.53
Uganda 2007 0.39
Sudan 2005 0.29
Kyrgyzstan 2007 0.23
Egypt 2007 0.23
Kazakhstan 2008 0.22
Azerbaijan 2007 0.17
Burkina Faso 2007 0.11
Senegal 2005 0.09
Kuwait 2007 0.09
Algeria 2005 0.07
Tajikistan 2007 0.06
Indonesia 2005 0.05
Saudi Arabia 2007 0.05

Table 1 GERD as a percentage of GDP for selected OIC countries in most recent year for which data are available. Source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Science & Technology Reports.

In terms of output, Iran has progressed from a low base of publications in the international journal literature of just 5,034 in 1996 to 20,244 in 2008. This 18-fold relative increase outstrips that of any other country in the OIC (see Figure 1). Moreover, Iran has matched this increase in output with an increase in field-weighted citation impact over the same period, as have several other OIC member states (see Figure 2).

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Iran is really the rising star of the region, even though they are being sanctioned so severely by the West.