The report on the development of the nano technology in Iran in the Iranian calendar year of 1400 (March 21, 2021 to March 20, 2022) indicates that the value of Iran’s nano sale stood at 553 million dollars in 1399 (March 21, 2020 to March 20, 2021).
According to the report, some 12199 articles related to nano technology progresses were indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) in 2021, equivalent to 5.41 percent of total number of nano-related articles in that year.
So, such number of articles in this respect shows that Iran continued to be ranked four in 2021 just like its ranking in the year before. However, Iran’s ranking was 58th in the world and sixth in the Middle East in 2000, when Iranian scholars and researchers published only 8 articles in the same year.
The University of Tehran published 843 nano-related articles equivalent to 6.8 percent of Iran’s nano articles in 2021; so, the university ranked first and was followed by Amirkabir University of Technology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST).
The set of Islamic Azad University published nearly one fifth of the total number of nano-related articles.
The number of Iranians’ nano-related articles published by top scientific journals increased from 88 in 2020 to 93 in 2021.
Iran ranked 11th in H-Index during the five years ending in 2021, while the country’s ranking in publishing nano-related articles in Q1 journals improved one level.
The Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council has announced that the Islamic Republic registered 307 inventions concerning nano technology at the American and European patent registration offices until the end of 2021 totally.
The number of Iran’s nano patents registration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been 21 patents in 2021, the Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council reported, adding that some 34 nano inventions are to be finalized at the USPTO; so, Iran’s ranking in registration of patents at the office was 24 in 2021, and the number of inventions related to nano technology shows that around 30 percent of total patents registered at the US and European offices belong to Iran.
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