Comparative Scientometric Profile of Iran and Comparator Systems, 1996–2024

1996–2024 scientometric data comparing Iran with selected systems. Total research output is reported for the full period, while Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and Top 10% output values are averaged over 2015–2024 and 2015–2023 respectively. The dataset was created by Ehsan Roohi and published on figshare.

Use Cases

• Compare national research output trends over time based on total output values from 1996–2024.
• Benchmark citation impact performance based on averaged Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) values from 2015–2024.
• Analyze the proportion of high-impact publications based on averaged Top 10% output values from 2015–2023.

Strengths

• Provides a long-term time series for total output spanning 29 years (1996–2024).
• Includes two standardized scientometric indicators (FWCI and Top 10%) averaged over recent periods.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Time Range

Total output: 1996–2024; FWCI average: 2015–2024; Top 10% average: 2015–2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 17:41:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Iran and selected comparator systems.