IRNA � ISI investigations show that Iran has, for the first time, ranked 15 in science production with 22,500 scientific articles, said the head of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) on Tuesday.


'ISI and World of Web (WOB) sites show that Iran tops the Islamic countries in science production,' said Mohammad-Javad Dehqani.

The US, China, Britain, Germany, and India ranked first to fifth in the world. Russia, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, and Poland ranked 16th to 20th.

Among the 57 Islamic countries Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Egypt ranked second and fifth.