An overview of science promotion policies in Iran upstream documents

The promotion of science is one of the new topics that has received much attention in recent years. Promoting science is trying to reflect scientific ideas in a way that the general public can understand the science's basic concepts. Considering the importance and position of science popularization, this research has been formed in order to follow and review the policies in the field of science promotion based on the country's upstream documents and to fill the research gap in this field.

This research is descriptive-analytical and it uses the method of content analysis and documentary review. By examining the content of upstream documents and the policies of the country in this study, 11 documents and policies that have dealt with the promotion of science were analyzed. This study determines what aspect of the promotion of science each of these cases addressed.

Based on this study, it was found that the "Comprehensive Scientific Map of Health" includes the issue of science generalization in values and strategies, introduced the relevant institutions and pointed to some tools to achieve this and some indicators in order to evaluate the extent of their accomplishments has been proposed. This document has performed better than other documents and policies in this area. The "Comprehensive Scientific Map of the country", in addition to the evaluation criteria, has tried to consider other aspects and dimensions of the subject of promotion. Other studied documents have more or less addressed various aspects of the subject of science promotion.