A STUDY OF ONE DECADE OF SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION BY IRANIAN SCHOLARS TO PERSIAN JOURNALS

different scientific fields, including "Humanities", "Science", "Engineering" and "Agriculture, Veterinary and Natural Resources" to the production of scholarly papers published in Persian journals between 1380-1390 (2001-2011).
This is a descriptive survey which uses scientometrics approaches. Research materials include all of the papers related to the fields of "Humanities", "Science", ". The list of these journals has been extracted from the Magiran database, the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) and the Scientific Information Database (SID).
Findings: Results reveal that the field of "Humanities" had the highest LEVEL of scientific production, with the highest number of journals (421) and the highest number of papers (44416). This field also contained the highest number of subfields (17). Based on the findings, the greatest number of papers in the field of "Agriculture" belongs to the subfield of “Agronomy"; in the field of "Engineering" this is related to the subfield of "Chemistry, Oil and Polymer"; and in the field of "Science" it belongs to the subfield of "Biology".
According to the findings the average annual growth rate of publications during the research period was 26.2% for the field of "Humanities", 5.8% for "Engineering", 28.9% for "Agriculture, Veterinary and Natural Resources” and 29.2% for "Science".