Pathology of Higher Education in The Field of Research With The Use of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making TOPSIS

This study was conducted with the aim of pathology research at the Imam Khomeini Maritime Science University as the center of thinking and development of the IRI Navy. This study, regarding the purpose and method is practical and data collection was through researcher made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire was approved.The population of study consisted of 70 masters of Imam Khomeini University and 59 of them were chosen through simple random sampling based on Cochran formula. But researchers increased the sample size to 64 people in order to avoid subject subtraction. And finally because of 15 distorted questionnaires, the number of valid ones was reduced to 49 people. Data analysis was done through using t-test and TOPSIS multi-criteria decision-making algorithm. The results showed that human, structural, cognitive and communication factors were effective on research quality and the importance of these factors has high impact on some options and they should be addressed to avoid the research damage formation.