Scientific publications in the subject area of Artificial Intelligence in Middle Eastern countries during 1996 to 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific production in the Middle East during the years 1996 to 2014 and their scientific progress in the field of artificial intelligence. In this study, the method of scientometric is used. With the search conducted in the Scopus database, a total of 376 709 documents were obtained within the range of the target years. Then through SCIMAGO and Global Innovation Index and using Excel software necessary analyzes were performed on them. The results showed that Middle Eastern countries, only 4.03 percent of world publications in the field of artificial intelligence had. Iran in terms of scientific production and the number of documents cited have Rank 17 in the World and Based on the same indicator has ranked first in the Middle East with producing 5156 document. In cooperation with other countries and H index, citations and the number of citations per document and scientific progress Israel and the number of self-citations, Turkey ranks the first among the countries of the region. Iran’s rank is first in the Middle East in terms of scientific production but need to strengthen the citations and the international cooperation in science and development.