Study of scientific production of Agricultural Research and Education centers affiliated to the AREEO indexed in Scopus until 2015

Using Scopus database, this study examines scientific productions of Research and Training Centers (RTC) researchers affiliated to AREEO until the end of 2015. The main purpose of the study was to analyze the scientific productions of RTC researchers using scientometrics criteria. The findings show that 1473 Scientific productions, by totally 5267 citations to them, have been published by researchers from 1961 to 2015. In terms of subject categories, most articles was in the field of “agriculture and life sciences” with 1125 cases (53.52 percent). In addition, 1346 (91.38 percent) of the documents was research papers. Findings also show that most of the researchers’ papers have been published in Acta Horticulturae. The survey of co-authorship pattern also revealed that Islamic Azad University has been main co-author institution by collaboration in writing 386 articles (33.68 percent). The researchers of examined RTC have had the most collaboration with their counterparts from Malazya, Netherlands and India by 53, 31 and 18 respectively. Based on the results, the rate of paper publication has been increased from 2006 onwards. According to the H-Index, Hossein Batoli from Esfahan RTC with H-Index number of 25 has placed higher than the other researchers.