Iran's Scientific Interactions and Communications with the G8 Countries

In recent years various studies are conducted about scientific cooperation among researchers. This study aims at examining extent of scientific cooperation between Iranian and the G8 countries as per the Scopus database covering the period from 1999-2011. This is a survey-descriptive research, and employs scientometric method. In the present study, situation of knowledge production in Iran and G8 countries and their cooperation in producing scientific papers was analyzed. Findings show that during study period scientific cooperation between Iran and G8 countries has increasing trend and with 26% growth rate after 2004. Tehran University, Sana'ti Sharif and Tehran Medical University have the highest scientific cooperation with these 8 countries. Researchers in engineering, medical sciences, physics and astronomy have published highest number of joint papers. Most of these works are in English language and more than 92% articles are in journals or conferences.