Scientific Production of OIC Countries in Social Sciences (2006-2008)

This study investigates OIC members states‘ research findings indexed in Scopus in social science category during 2006-2008 based on citation analysis. Population includes 28 OIC members with more than one millions. The findings showed that Turkey، Iran، Malaysia and Nigeria in relation to numbers of articles obtained first to fourth places، respectively. Based on citation counts except Malaysia the three others kept their position. Out of 10619 articles، about 2933 articles (27. 6%) received citations. Mean H Index in Southeast Asia، southwest and south، north and central Asia and Africa is 6. 3، 4. 4، 3. 6، and 2. 8، respectively.