The Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran ranked second in terms of the number of citations of patent licenses to scientific productions of Islamic countries.

Prof. Seyed Ahmad Fazelzadeh, president of ISC, stated that scientific impact is often examined by citations, and counting the citations received in scientific documents is a common practice in scientometric studies, but these citations also occur in technological environments, which can be considered as the impact of science on technology.

He also added that based on this index, it can be concluded that technological advances and innovations are based on the achievements and findings of scientific research.

Prof. Fazelzadeh further said: in the 10-year period from 2012 to 2021, more than 99 million scientific documents have been produced worldwide, of which 1,341,732 documents have been cited in patent licenses. In the same period, 752,421 scientific documents of Iranian researchers have been published, of which 13,058 documents have been cited by 22,248 patent licenses 24,984 times.

The president of ISC added that in the period of 2012-2021, in terms of the total production of technological science, Iran has taken the second place among Islamic countries, and Saudi Arabia and Turkey have taken the first and third places, respectively. In terms of the number of citations of patent licenses to scientific products in Islamic countries in the period of 2012-2021, Iran has obtained the second rank after Saudi Arabia with 8,884 citations of patent licenses.