Citation Analysis of Rice Research Projects of Iran

This study aims to investigate the citation analysis of the final reports of research projects conducted at Rice Research Institute of Iran (RRII) in order to determine the type of documents, language of resources, citation of internal and external organization, collaborations of researchers. Citation analysis has been used. Citations of final reports of research projects conducted at RRII during 1999-2008 have been analyzed. Results show that out of 3812 total citations, 40.8% were Farsi and 59.2% were Latin. Citing to journal articles with 40.9% was the most cited and websites with 0.3% was the least cited resources. Among the citation, 28.31% were internal and 71.69% were external of AREEO. Out of 287 final reports, 8.37% were from individual work and 91.63% were in team work. When researchers conducted more researches, the total citations per research were low and vice versa. Most cited resources were non-Persian. More than 90% of researches were done with team working and most citations were to the works outside of the AREEO.