Evaluation of Research Productivity of Iranian Universities, and Research Institutes in the Expert Systems and its Related Fields

The purpose of this study was to identify and evaluate the research productivity of universities and institutes in the field of expert systems in Iran.

In accordance with the goals and nature of this subject, the current study is methodological applied research in which, documentary and survey methods were utilized. The Statistical community of this research includes all researchers, universities, and research institutes in the field of expert systems in Iran who have published articles on the website from 1996 to 2016. Due to a coefficient of 0.96 obtained by Cronbach's alpha, the questionnaire’s reliability was confirmed by using Excel and SPSS software.

The results indicated that the indexes of patented patents of researchers in the field of expert systems are of great importance. According to the research findings, the ranking of research productivity of researchers, universities, and institutes in the field of expert systems in Iran is as follows: As for the universities, the University of Tehran ranked first and Amirkabir University stood in the second.

The results revealed that in two qualification and quantitative dimensions and without considering the researchers' population, University of Tehran has the most productivity in the related fields of the expert systems.