Abstract
This paper investigates the trends of Impact Factors and self-citation rates of journals indexed in the JCR by two neighbouring countries Iran and Turkey for a period of five years (2000- 2005). All data extracted from the Journal Citation Reports – Science Edition (2000-2005). The study showed that the portion of Turkish journals entering data to the JCR data bank is two times higher than the portion of Iranian journals. From a total number of 6,088 journals in the JCR in 2005, 3 (0.05%) were published in Iran and the same number of journals published in Turkey. The 6,088 journals in the JCR produced 847,114 articles, 159 (0.02%) appeared in the Iranian journals and 352 (0.04%) in the Turkish journals. Of the 22,353,992 citations in 2005, 214 (0.001%) came from Iranian journals and 911 (0.004%) came from Turkish journals.
 The self-citation tendency by Iranian journals has increased dramatically throughout the period of study, it reached from 8% self-citation rate in 2000 to 18% in 2005, an increase of 2.25 times, whereas the self-citation rate by Turkish journals showed a negative trend, its self-citation rate fell from 22% in 2002 to 15% in 2005. The Impact Factors of Turkish journals showed faster growth than the Iranian journals, the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals in 2000 was 0.49 under than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals, but in 2005 the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals stayed 0.14 higher than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals.
Highlights
Gregoire Cote and Eric Archambault emphasized in their study about scientific collaboration between Canada and developing countries “most of the countries with low publication output have high growth rates, such that they are forecast to reach the Canadian level in a few years
This is the case for Iran and Turkey for example, and it is associated with significant development in their scientific systems: the numbers of institutions, programs and networks are growing, their research findings are being published
As the graph shows the mean value of IFs for Iranian journals has increased 0.029 annual
Summary
Gregoire Cote and Eric Archambault emphasized in their study about scientific collaboration between Canada and developing countries “most of the countries with low publication output have high growth rates, such that they are forecast to reach the Canadian level in a few years This is the case for Iran and Turkey for example, and it is associated with significant development in their scientific systems: the numbers of institutions, programs and networks are growing, their research findings are being published. The majority of Iranian publications come from authors with a librarianship background whereas Turkish publications include authors with different backgrounds such as statistics, industrial engineering and physics It is pointed out in this article that the number of publications from both countries does not match their potentials. Both countries need to increase their contributions and have a better position in the world of information science”
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