University of Kashan in World’s Highly Indexed Universities List

Dr. Ahmadizadeh, Head of the Central Library and Publications at the university, revealed that in the latest list published by Essential Science Indicator, there are 8557 top world institutes, University of Kashan among 41 Iranian public state universities present on the list.

Essential Science Indicators database as one of ISI databases announces world’s top universities every other month based on their quality of researches.

In this ranking, based on the number of citations, universities and research institutes which have been among 1 percent of world’s top universities are introduced.

This system offers information about the four main indicators, “number of documents indexed in top international journals”, “number of citations received by any university or research institutes”, “the number of citations per papers” and “number of highly cited papers (hot papers)” for each of the universities that are among that one percent.

Accordingly, University of Kashan has been placed 7^th in Engineering, 6^th in Chemistry and 5^th in Material Sciences among all Iranian public state institutes.