A study and analysis of the Quranic researches in international arena (ISI)

This research while taking advantage of ISI’s indexes deals with the scientific productions in the Quranic field. The research covers the indexes that are accessible in ISI’s bank data in the years 1990-2011. The study shows that the scientific productions in the Quranic field being recorded in the ISI’s data bank reach 292 documents. The first top three ranks are covered by universities of Michigan, King Saud and School of Oriental African Studies. The process of scientific production proves that since 2005 the Quranic researches have been increasingly on the rise. Iran’s share in the global scientific productions in the Quranic field has been fifteen documents that amounts 14/5 percent of the whole scientific productions. The article with the title of "Islamic perspective on human cloning and stem cell research" is cited as the most referred and effective article of Iran in the Quranic field.