The University Academic Members in the List of the Best
"Elsevier" publishing group together with researchers from Stanford University has presented a list of the world's most cited researchers based on the data of the "Scopus" citation database, which is one of the largest and most reliable scientific databases in the world. According to this database, 12 researchers from the University of Imam Khomeini International University is in this list, four researchers of the university are in the list of the most cited researchers in the top two percent of the world.
In the published list, two lists of highly cited researchers are presented, the first list includes the top two percent most cited researchers in all fields based on the number of citations until the end of 2021, and in this list the names of four members of the academic staff of Imam Khomeini International University. Dr. Saeed Abbas Bandy, Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi, Dr. Elias Shivanian and Mrs. Dr. Nooshin Bigdeli can be seen.
Also, the second list includes the top two percent most cited researchers based on the number of citations received in the relevant subject areas, and the names of 12 researchers of Imam Khomeini International University can be seen in this list, which is as follows:
Dr. Saeed Abbasbandy
Dr. Nooshin Bigdeli
Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi
Dr. Morteza Soleimaniaghdam
Dr. Majid Ghadiri
Dr. Elias Shivanian
Dr. Parviz Asadi
Dr. Ali Rajabpour
Dr. Abdolrahman Razani
It should be noted that the condition for researchers to enter the evaluation process is to publish at least five articles in the Scopus citation database, and researchers are classified in 22 subject areas and 176 disciplines. The main basis of this evaluation is the citation index, and the number of citations to researchers' scientific productions, the number of citations without self-citation, the researchers' H index, and the use of a combined citation index of the evaluation criteria of this institution were to extract 2% highly cited researchers