Study of scientific production of National Research Centers affiliated to AREEO indexed in Scopus until 2015

Using Scopus database, the present study examines scientific productions of AREEO researchers until end of 2015. The main purpose of the study was analyzing of scientific productions of researchers in AREEO affiliated national research institutes using scientometrics indices. The findings show that 576 records have been totally published by AREEO national institutes researchers from 1997 to 2015. About 2498citations have been done to these documents representing an average of 4.33 citations per document. After deduction of self-citations, the figure reaches to 1983 citations. In addition, most of documents are research paper with 470 cases (81.6 percent). Findings also show that most of the researchers’ papers (16.32 percent) have been published in the J. of Acta Horticulturae. The survey of co-authorship pattern also revealed that Islamic Azad University has been main co-author institution by collaboration in writing 135 articles (23.44 per cent). Gilan and Tabiat Modarres universities have been respectively next important partners in authoring papers. The researchers of examined institutions had have the most collaboration with their counterparts from Syria, Japan, and India respectively. Based on the results, the rate of paper publication has been increased from 2006 onwards and then has been decreased from 2012. Based on the H-Index, Dryland Research Institute has been the most active institute by H index of 18 in scientific productions.