Using ISI Statistics and Scientometrics Indicators, the present study surveys the Islamic Azad University (IAU) Scientific Production from 1990 to 2007. The number of IAU names indexed in ISI Web Of Science is more than 100. During this period with doing Authority control for retrieving all of IAU names, 1961 scientific papers were retrieved from WOS DataBases, 1249 out of 1961 scientific papers indexed under the name of ISLAM AZAD UNIV. IAU possesses 2.23% of Iran Scientific production in 2000, that this number promoted to 7.15% in 2007. 1937 out of 1961 were indexed in SCIE, 56 titles were indexed in SSCI and only 4 titles were indexed in A&HCI. 1717 out of 1961 were produced in the Article format, and 99.95% of all these Scientific Production were produced in English, IAU Authors have published most of their Scientific Productions in Cooporation with researchers in USA, Canada And Germany. "Rustaiyan, A" with 94 scientific production is in the first place among other IAU Authors. The Subject Category of "Chemistry, Multidisciplinary" indexed 240 out of 1961 titles published by IAU. The journal "Applied Mathematics& Computation" has published 144 out of 1961 titles during these years. "Iranian Polymer Journal" published only 19 out 1961 of IAU’s scientific production that this Journal was in the 10th place among journals Published by IAU during 1990 to 2007.

The goal of this paper is evaluation of published scientific documents of Islamic Azad University (IAU) in WOS from the beginning until Feb. 2013. The method of this study was extracting of all published IAU documents that have been indexed in WOS in all field of Science, Social Science and Art & Humanity. Research findings show that in this period, 18398 scientific documents have been published by IAU that is about 12.42% of Iran’s total published scientific documents from 1956 until the present time. Clustering of the journals based on topic indicated that 22.72% of documents are related to Chemistry, 14.45% related to Engineering Sciences, and 8.92% published in Physics. The increasing number of IAU documents from Jan. 1999 until Feb. 2013 is significant. In 2012, the IAU reached the first position of scientific documents production among all Iranian universities. Most scientific collaborations of IAU in scientific publication have been with US, followed by Malaysia, England, Germany, Turkey, and Australia. More than 4700 IAU documents have been published in 37 journals, 8 of them lack or have a poor peer-review process. At the end, a number of suggestions for increasing quality of IAU’s scientific documents have been offered.

To compare the level of knowledge, the attitudes, and practices with regards to tobacco use between Iranian students at a public (PBU) and Islamic Azad (IAU) university. A cross‑sectional design was used in this study. As the number of students at the IAU were three times greater than that of the PBU, we selected 150 students from the PBU and 450 students from the IAU using simple random sampling. A 57‑item survey instrument was utilized for this study. The collected data were recorded by SPSS version 15 software and then it underwent statistical analysis using descriptive statistics and ANOVA to compare the difference between means of knowledge, attitude and practice scores. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify variables that have an independent association with students smoking and to describe possible variations in these relationships. The P value level for statistical significance was set at 0.05. From participants, 46.8% were females, 10% of 327 students reported being daily smokers; of these, 84% were from the IAU. Totally, among the 107 smokers, 61 (57%) and 29 (27.1%) were water pipe and cigarettes smokers, respectively. Ninety‑three IAU students (21.7%) and 30 PBU students (20.7%) reported smoking during the past 30 days. The mean of the knowledge items between the students of IAU was lower than PBU students. Female gender, smoking in the home, and allowing visitors to smoke in the home were significant predictors of smoking in the past 30 days in PBU, respectively. In IAU, female gender, smoking by friends, and health status were predictors for smoking in the past 30 days. Future studies should assess the factors affecting smoking initiation, as well as effective techniques for the prevention of smoking initiation and substance abuse in Iranian adolescents and young adults.

Regarding the significant role of knowledge-based entrepreneurship in innovation and converting the research results into products and services, it is imperative to train entrepreneurs in universities. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the answer to following question: is there any relationship between research behaviour and entrepreneurship among academic staff in Islamic Azad University (IAU) Roudehen Branch? To this end, a survey method was used to collect data and find the relationship between variables. Theoretical issues and literature review were also carried out through a library research together with benefiting from the university’s research data base. The population of the study consisted of all the faculty members (N=325) of IAU Roudehen Branch. The research instruments were a researcher-designed questionnaire for research behaviour and the entrepreneurship questionnaire. The results of multivariate regression indicated that there was no relationship between research behaviour (Dependant variable) and entrepreneurship (Independent variable) among university professors in Islamic Azad University (IAU) Roudehen Branch. There was no significant difference between the male and female professors in this respect. Also, no relationship was found between their research behaviour and academic degrees.

The purpose of the present research was evaluation of the quality of educational services in the physical education faculties of IAU branches across Iran and designing it`s model. This research was descriptive-analytical carried out as a field study. The population consisted of all the postgraduate students of physical education in different branches of IAU. 488 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling and Cochran's formula. A researcher-made questionnaire (PE SERVQUAL) was used for data collection. Paired t-test, Friedman test and SEM were applied for data analysis. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the desired and the actual condition of educational services in physical education faculties of IAU (p

This study explored professional needs of facultymembers at public universities and the Islamic Azad University(IAU). Data were collected using a five-point check list. Results indicated that academics at IAU needed to learn more about Windows software¡ conference presentation in English¡ and principles of effective communications. On the other hand¡ academics in public universities needed to learn more about academic writing in English¡ delivering speech in English¡ planning principles¡ effective communications¡ lesson plan preparation¡ and SPSS.

This study was carried out in order to explain the dimensions and constituents of the performance evaluation in higher education and to put forward an appropriate pattern as regards IAU. Survey method was used in this study. An inspection of the international standard models of organizational excellence helped us to extract common evaluation criteria using Delphi method. The 6 input and 4 output indicators with 64 constituents were, then, operationalised into a Liker-scale questionnaire. After establishing its reliability and validity it was administered on 38 IAU branches in the first region. The data was analyzed using data envelopment analysis (DEA(method. The results of the study were indicative of the efficiency of some of the branches and inefficiency of others. Further, in order to determine the priority of the efficient branches, a use was made of Anderson & Peterson method (AP). Finally, through a provision of a virtual unit and a reference set, the amendable points of inefficient branches were identified and necessary suggestions were made to enhance their efficiency

The purpose of present research was to study the relationship between emotional intelligence of managers and organizational learning in Islamic Azad University (IAU) to present an appropriate model for organizational learning based on manager's emotional intelligence. The population of the study consisted of all the IAU managers, out of which 554 were selected as sample applying cluster random sampling. The research tools were Cyberia-Shrink Emotional Intelligence test, and Watkins and Marsick Organizational Learning test. The results of linear multivariate regression indicated that 1) There was a relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational learning (organizational level), 2) Organizational learning model based on the managers emotional intelligence was as follows: Organizational Learning = 0.145 × Self-Control + 1.217

This developmental mixed-methods enquiry was undertaken to propose a model for promoting the social responsibility of faculty members at various branches of Islamic Azad University (IAU) in Tehran Province based on their professional ethics and occupational performance. The research population comprised 5371 full-time and part- time faculty members from whom a sample of 361 was selected based on Kukran formula.  The qualitative phase of the study involved collecting and analyzing the views of 30 experts in the field concerning the dimensions and indicators of the social responsibility construct via Delphi technique. The findings emerging from the qualitative analyses delineated five major factors and 25 indicators tapping the level of social responsibility, and the quantitative analyses indicated significant and positive relationships between faculty members’ social responsibility and their professional ethics and occupational performance. Based on the findings, a model has been proposed for promoting faculty members’ social responsibility at various branches of IAU in Tehran in which professional ethics and occupational performance function as independent variables with the former being of paramount importance.

Global citizenship education (GCE) is a pedagogical field that has established itself internationally in the past few years being introduced to all countries including Iran where lots of English language learners, are involved with the English Language learning process and language textbooks, as well as language teachers and policy makers who need to face English as the Lingua Franca (EFL) of the postmodern era. Accordingly, the focus of this study has been to investigate the implementation of the GCE in Iran and how the awareness of GCE goals can relate to English language Proficiency of individuals. To this end, a GCE questionnaire was translated in Persian based on Morais and Ogden’s (2010) and was distributed among 400 PhD candidates of different majors in IAU, who were currently involved in taking IAU English Language Proficiency Test (EPT), to investigate the relationship between the two main variables of this study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics including Analysis of Variance and linear regression were carried out. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the awareness of GCE goals and English language Proficiency. These findings indicate that English Language learning and the related contents can play a significant role in raising awareness regarding global challenges in the world.