Top Scientists in Iran (2026)
Explore researchers affiliated with institutions in Iran who appear in the 2026 single-year World's Top 2% Scientists dataset.
Historical listings in Iran
Annual numbers of listed scientists.
Countries with similar listing totals
Closest by the number of scientists listed in 2026 single-year dataset.
Top 10 Researchers in Iran
Ordered by original worldwide rank in the 2026 single-year dataset.
| Iran | Worldwide | Researcher | Discipline | c-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 |
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences |
Clinical Medicine | 4.48 |
| 2 | 405 |
Kaveh, Ali
Iran University of Science and Technology, College of Civil Engineering Tehran |
Engineering | 4.26 |
| 3 | 440 |
Jafari, Seid Mahdi
Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources |
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry | 4.24 |
| 4 | 570 |
Iravani, Siavash
Independent Researcher |
Enabling & Strategic Technologies | 4.18 |
| 5 | 691 |
Sheikholeslami, Mohsen
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology |
Engineering | 4.14 |
| 6 | 713 |
Derakhshan, Ali
Golestan University |
Communication & Textual Studies | 4.13 |
| 7 | 1,320 |
Gharehchopogh, Farhad Soleimanian
Islamic Azad University |
Information & Communication Technologies | 3.98 |
| 8 | 1,425 |
Salavati-Niasari, Masoud
University of Kashan |
Chemistry | 3.97 |
| 9 | 1,722 |
Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi
Iran University of Medical Sciences |
Information & Communication Technologies | 3.92 |
| 10 | 2,090 |
Akhavan, Omid
Sharif University of Technology |
Physics & Astronomy | 3.87 |
Top 10 Institutions in Iran
Number of listed scientists by recorded affiliation.
Top 10 Disciplines in Iran
Number of listed scientists by Science-Metrix broad field.
How to interpret these rankings
These pages present scientists associated with Iran in the 2026 single-year dataset. Country refers to the affiliation country recorded in the source data, not necessarily citizenship or nationality. Worldwide rank is taken from the dataset; country positions and institution totals are calculations made by this website.
Country position is based on the number of listed scientists, not an official assessment of national research quality. Institution counts use distinct nonblank affiliation names as recorded, so variants of the same institutional name may be counted separately. Historical changes describe representation in successive datasets and should not be interpreted as direct changes in research quality.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about Iran based on the 2026 single-year ranking data.
2,678 researcher records are associated with Iran in the 2026 single-year dataset. This is a count of listed researchers, not of all scientists working in the country.
Countries are ordered by their number of listed researcher records in the selected 2026 single-year dataset. The resulting position does not measure overall research quality, productivity, or national scientific capacity.
The Top 10 Institutions and Top 10 Disciplines charts show the most frequently represented institution names and disciplinary classifications among the listed researchers associated with Iran. These are counts of researchers, not institutional or disciplinary quality scores.
The selected dataset contains 442 distinct nonblank institution names for Iran. Differences in institutional naming may cause the same organization to appear under more than one name.
You can examine both views, but they reflect different citation-impact periods. A difference in counts or positions should not be interpreted as a direct change in research performance without considering the ranking methodology and data coverage.
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