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 Topic: Iran is top of the world in science growth

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  • Iran is top of the world in science growth
     OP - April 19, 2011, 04:05 AM
    Which country's scientific output rose 18-fold between 1996 and 2008, from 736 published papers to 13,238? The answer – Iran – might surprise many people, especially in the western nations used to leading science. Iran has the fastest rate of increase in scientific publication in the world.

    And if political relations between Iran and the US are strained, it seems that the two countries' scientists are getting on fine: the number of collaborative papers between them rose almost fivefold from 388 to 1831 over the same period.

    A rapid rise in Middle Eastern, Chinese, Indian and Brazilian science stands out from a report published this week by the UK's Royal Society, comparing global publication and citation rates between 1993 and 2003 with those between 2004 and 2008. Like Iran, other, smaller players are also stepping up their research activity. Turkey, for example, quadrupled its output between 1996 and 2008, after increasing sixfold its funding for R&D. Similar trends emerged in Tunisia, Singapore and Qatar.

    On the broader scientific stage, the established leaders in the US, Europe and Japan still dominate, but their ascendency is being eroded by rapidly industrialising countries. So while the proportion of papers with US authors has slipped from 26 to 21 per cent, China has risen from sixth to second place with 10.2 per cent of the authored papers, up from 4.4 per cent in 1996. India and Brazil are rising rapidly too.

    "The leading nations are not getting weaker," says Chris Llewellyn Smith, chair of the panel that produced the study. "Rather, I would say we're seeing a rise in other nations into the big league," he says.

    Marking the growth of science as a global enterprise to solve global problems, Llewellyn Smith says that collaborative papers have risen from a quarter to more than a third of all papers published. "To solve a global problem, you need data from all round the world, and this helps to unify the scientific voice geographically," he says. "So I think we can all benefit from this, to solve global problems."

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20291-iran-is-top-of-the-world-in-science-growth.html
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #1 - April 19, 2011, 04:17 AM
    Nuclear energy research?
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #2 - April 19, 2011, 04:22 AM
    Yep. Heavy state investment in certain technologies will lead to greater scientific growth. For example, rocketry and nuclear science in the US and USSR from the late 40s through the early 80s-- and those fields necessarily had spillover onto other related scientific fields.
    fuck you
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #3 - April 19, 2011, 05:03 AM
    Theory of the negative corralation between familial relations of perpetrator of avian beastiality and ritualistic permissibility of consumption?
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
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  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #4 - April 19, 2011, 05:06 AM
    Force = mass * acceleration; new studies in the physical impact of cylindical wooden objects and their effect on the human body.
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #5 - April 19, 2011, 05:20 AM
    China's scientific output will be enormous soon.
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #6 - April 19, 2011, 07:08 AM
    Cold War progress
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #7 - April 19, 2011, 05:32 PM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on April 19, 2011, 04:17 AM
    Nuclear energy research?


    Seems to be advances in different fields, I read this recently:

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174084.html

    Quote
    Iran has unveiled Iranian Gazelle 2, the country's third solar vehicle completely designed and developed by Iranian scientists and experts.

    "Road tests showed that Gazelle 2 can reach the speed of 120km/h, but we believe that it can be increased to 150km/h," he added.

    The veteran mechanics expert also said that the solar cells used in the car have 22 percent efficiency enabling Gazelle 2 to travel a distance of 600km at the speed of 80 km/h if the weather is sunny.

    Iranian Gazelle 2 is due to compete in the 2011 World Solar Challenge competition in Australia this October, according to Rahbar.

    The competition challenges over a hundred of the world's best Technical Universities and Colleges to design and build a car capable of crossing Australia on the power of the sun.

    The Challenge, which begins on October 16, crosses the center of Australia - stretching 3,000 kilometers from Darwin to Adelaide


    Wonder how they'll fair in the competition.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #8 - April 19, 2011, 05:35 PM
    Quote from: Q-Man on April 19, 2011, 04:22 AM
    Yep. Heavy state investment in certain technologies will lead to greater scientific growth. For example, rocketry and nuclear science in the US and USSR from the late 40s through the early 80s-- and those fields necessarily had spillover onto other related scientific fields.


    Yup, humans enjoy competing with each other, if there was a cold war today between the US, Russia and China, man would reach Mars a lot quicker!
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #9 - April 19, 2011, 07:47 PM
    Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers?

    Size of the circle is proportional to the number of papers while colour indicates quality - dark green is best, red is worst.


     
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  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #10 - April 19, 2011, 07:51 PM
    How are they judging that?
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #11 - April 19, 2011, 08:21 PM
    How were they judging quality?

    Quality of paper and its influence is determined by the number of citations - the more a paper is cited the more important it is.

    The researchers were using data from Web-of-Science database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Science which is the largest accessible citation database with links to over 800.000.000 cited references.

    Link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/1103/1103.3216v1.pdf

    Link to the article: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2154-citation-map-shows-top-science-cities.html
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #12 - April 19, 2011, 08:25 PM
    Quote from: Kenan on April 19, 2011, 08:21 PM

    Quality of paper and its influence is determined by the number of citations - the more a paper is cited the more important it is.


    Ah, I thought it'd be that.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #13 - April 19, 2011, 08:26 PM
    Btw title of the 'fastest rate of increase in scientific publication in the world' should really go to Republic of Vanuatu. Their scientific output rose 42-fold between 1996 and 2008, from 2 published papers to 85.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #14 - April 19, 2011, 08:31 PM
    How do you get access to Web of Science?
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #15 - April 19, 2011, 08:49 PM
    It's a payable service - your University will be able to help you with that.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #16 - April 19, 2011, 08:49 PM
    What university Tongue
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #17 - April 19, 2011, 09:11 PM
    The one you should start going to in September this year.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #18 - April 19, 2011, 09:25 PM
    Fingers crossed they'll let me in.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #19 - April 19, 2011, 09:28 PM
    Quote from: Kenan on April 19, 2011, 07:47 PM
    Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers?

    Size of the circle is proportional to the number of papers while colour indicates quality - dark green is best, red is worst.


    China and India are doing well.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #20 - April 19, 2011, 09:29 PM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on April 19, 2011, 09:25 PM
    Fingers crossed they'll let me in.

    Fingers crossed!

    I'll sacrifice a goat to Zeus in your name. I heard it works even if you don't believe.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #21 - April 19, 2011, 09:51 PM
    lulz @ Moscow, wth are they researching there?
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #22 - May 13, 2011, 09:46 AM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on April 19, 2011, 09:25 PM
    Fingers crossed they'll let me in.


    then fuck off and go get your A in maths you wanker
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #23 - May 13, 2011, 01:15 PM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on April 19, 2011, 09:51 PM
    lulz @ Moscow, wth are they researching there?

    Bear cavalry.
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  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #24 - May 13, 2011, 01:29 PM
    -Edited-
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #25 - May 15, 2011, 06:16 PM
    You can even get a sex change in Iran  yes
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #26 - May 15, 2011, 08:00 PM
    Yes, that's true. There is a catch though. Are you familiar with the intricacies of this issue? It is by no means something any country should be proud of. In fact it's completely fucked up.
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #27 - May 15, 2011, 08:52 PM
    I only know that Ayatollah khomeini allowed it, apart from that nothing else. It was part of my arsenal when I was an anti-shia muslimah  parrot
  • Re: Iran is top of the world in science growth
     Reply #28 - May 15, 2011, 09:02 PM
    Quote from: Aphrodite on May 15, 2011, 08:52 PM
    I only know that Ayatollah khomeini allowed it, apart from that nothing else. It was part of my arsenal when I was an anti-shia muslimah  parrot

     Hmm talk about Ayatollah., The present day Ayatollah says Ahmadinejad under sorcerer’s spell
    Quote
    TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been put “under a spell” by his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, an ultra-conservative cleric was quoted by local media on Sunday as saying.

    “I’ve told some of my close friends that I am more than 90 percent certain that (Ahmadinejad) has been put under a spell. This is not natural at all,”Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, believed to have once been a mentor of
    the president, told the weekly Shoma.

    Quote
    “No sane person does such things unless his free will has been taken away,”Mesbah Yazdi said in reference to a crisis that has erupted since mid-April between Ahmadinejad and the hardline conservative camp close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    “His actions have no justification. When he has 10 friends… does it make sense to constantly defy nine of them and defend (the actions of the) tenth person?” Mesbah Yazdi asked in an allusion to Mashaie.

     
    “I do not know if it is (because of) hypnotism, a spell or relations with yogis. But there is something wrong,” said Mesbah Yazdi.

    “It is almost as if this questionable person (Mashaie) has put this man (Ahmadinejad) under a spell, as if he has wrapped him around his finger,” he said.

    “Those who have spoken in recent days about the influence of fortune tellers and jinn (shape-shifting spirits) on government were telling jokes,”Ahmadinejad said on May 8. Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi hit back hard at the accusation by the ultra-conservatives.

    “Some people speak of sorcery and jinns and attribute them to the government. Is it possible to govern the country with sorcery and jinn? Is it possible to send satellites into the sky (using them)? Science is behind all these issues,” Rahimi was quoted as saying in some local papers


    Hmm I knew it That guy is Jinn.. Beat the shit out of him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_HYw3195Q0
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
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