TEHRAN – The Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology held a special ceremony on Saturday to honor distinguished Iranian academicians.

The ceremony was held with First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref, and Science Minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf in attendance, IRNA reported.

The honored academicians are active in 19 different fields of study as follows.

Nader Karimi, a faculty member at Isfahan University of Technology- Computer Engineering.

Keivan Narooei, faculty member at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology – Materials Engineering.

Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, a faculty member at University of Tehran – Mathematics.

Hamid Abdi, a faculty member at Razi University in Kermanshah – Electrical Engineering.

Mohammad Sharifi, a faculty member at Amirkabir University of Technology – Chemical Engineering

Qodrat Ebadimanas, a faculty member at Farhangian University –  Animal Biology.

Masoud Rezaei, a professor at Tarbiat Modares University – Fisheries.

Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei, a faculty member at Sharif University of Technology – Electrical Engineering.

Saeid Alikhani, a faculty member at Yazd University – Mathematics.

Monireh Khordadmehr, a faculty member at University of Tabriz –  Veterinary Pathology.

Nasser Mozayeni, a faculty member at Iran University of Science and Technology – Computer Engineering.

Iman Qalandarian Golkhatmi, a faculty member at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad – Urbanism.

Mehdi Momeni-Shahraki, a faculty member at University of Isfahan – Civil Engineering – Surveying.

Fatemeh Rafiei Karkevandi, a faculty member at Al-Zahra University – Organic Chemistry.

Faezeh Fazeli, a faculty member, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University – Plant Physiology.

Iman Zakariaee, a faculty member of Isfahan University of Art – Art Research.

Azadeh Mirzaei, a faculty member at Allameh Tabatabaei University –  General Linguistics.

Masoud Tohidfar, a faculty member at Shahid Beheshti University – Agricultural Biotechnology.

Mojtaba Kafi, a faculty member at Shiraz University – Reproductive Diseases in Animals.

Over 1,140 Iranians among world’s 1% most-cited researchers

A total of 1,142 Iranian researchers have been recognized among the world’s top one percent most-cited researchers in 2025, compared to 1,056 identified researchers in 2024, according to the Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) Institute.

The Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education (with 603 entries) accounts for 52.77 percent, and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (with 427 researchers) represents 37.43 percent of the most-cited Iranian researchers, isc.ir reported.

Clinical medicine, with 446 entries, Engineering with 219 entries, Pharmacology and Toxicology with 163 entries, Chemistry with 140 entries, Neuroscience and Behavior with 115 entries, Agriculture Sciences with 100 entries, and Social Sciences with 77 entries held the highest shares of the most-cited researchers.

Three Iranian researchers have been among the highly cited award recipients.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data covers a 10-year period and includes bimonthly updates to rankings and citation counts.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data covers a 10-year period and includes bimonthly updates to rankings and citation counts.

Clarivate regularly publishes research impact metrics through the ESI, identifying top-performing research indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. Each journal indexed in the WoS Core Collection is assigned to one of the 22 research fields. Author rankings are calculated based on the citations received by an author in a 10-year period in each research field. Among all authors producing research in the same research field, those ranking in the top one percent by citations would be regarded as top one percent scholars.

Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier, has placed a total of 2,772 Iranian researchers among the top two percent of the most-cited scientists’ annual list, based on career-long impact.

This version is based on the August 2025 snapshot from Scopus, updated to the end of citation year 2024.

This work uses Scopus data. Calculations were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of August 1, 2025.

Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers.

Career-long data are updated to end-of-2024, and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2024.

The selection Is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2 percent or above in the sub-field.

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