A decade of Islamic Azad University's scientific productivity in ISI Databases (1999 to 2008)

This study attempts to evaluate the scientific publications of Islamic Azad University of Iran in 1999 to 2008 in some dimensions such as “types of documents”, “languages”, “subject areas”, “sources” and “ISI Covered Journals”. To do this, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Citation Analysis’ methods were used. Also, “comparative” method was used to analyze the data. The results show that scientific productions of Islamic Azad University in 2004 to 2008 were more than 1999 to 2003 and it has been 905/34 percent growth. Therefore, “types of documents” and “languages” of Islamic Azad University’ scientific productions permanently have been increasing in 1999 to 2008. The university’s share in some subject areas such as “Multidisciplinary Chemistry and other chemistry areas”, “Applied mathematics”, “Pharmacology and Pharmacy”, “Food Science & Technology”, “Veterinary”, “Agricultural Science, Plants and Animals” and “Environmental Sciences” were more than other subject areas in WoS. Also, JCR shows that the university hasn’t been any Journal in the Database. However, there is only one indexed journal from Islamic Azad University, Branch of Tehran Sciences and Research entitled: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. The Journal published 0/52 percent of Indexed Scientific Productions of that university in WoS.