Posted: October 8, 2007 |
Iran improves nanotechnology research ranking |
(Nanowerk News) According to the Iranian Nanotechnology Initiative (INI), the number of published articles by Iranian nanotechnology researchers has increased from the second to the third quarter of 2007.
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According to statistics released by a monitoring and analysis work group of INI, based on the ISI database, Iran has published 305 nanotechnology articles so far in 2007, a share of 0.82%, which ranks it in 26th place after Mexico, Greece and Austria.
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The total number of Iranian nanotechnology articles in 2006 was 277 articles in various international journals.
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In comparison, the four leading countries – USA (23.6%), China (19.7%), Japan (10.4%) and Germany (8.8%) – have a combined share of almost two thirds of all publsihed nanotechnology articles.
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