Comparing the Share of Scholarly Output Published Through the Collaboration between Academic and Corporates in Iran, Middle East, and the World

Objectives The current research is conducted with the aim of investigating the collaborative share of publications between universities and industries of Iran in all areas of knowledge categories and comparing them with the average of the Middle East region and the world Methodology This study is an applied research in terms of objectives while it is a descriptive study in the view of data analysis and conducted using scientometric indicators Research population comprised of all Scopus indexed scholarly outputs of Iran the Middle East and the world which published through coauthorship between universities and industries during to documents Data were collected using Elseviers Scopus and Scival Microsoft Excel was utilized for data analysis and visualization of the heat map Results Results of the study revealed that the share of publications from universitycorporate publications in Iran was lower than that of the Middle East and the world Although Iran has had a considerable growth in scientific productivity during the recent years it is placed out of the top most productive world countries based on the share of collaboration between universities and industries Scholarly outputs of Iran in the area of medicine had higher levels of academiccorporate collaboration as well as citation impact in comparison with the Middle East and the world Moreover researchers in Iran in the areas of engineering computer sciences and medicine have published the highest number of publications through universityindustry collaboration Conclusion The interaction and collaboration between academic researchers and industries in Iran are low just same as many other developing countries However the University of Tehran Sharif University of Technology and Islamic Azad University were the most active institutes in collaboration with team works.