Results: In three groups of infrastructure, survival, and perfection, the results are as below respectively. The highest rate of progress in terms of the ranked document in the groups of infrastructure, family physician area with 314% growth belongs to Iran, in the groups of survival, Nanosciences with 269% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of perfection, nursing with 193% growth belong to Iran again. But in terms of ranked citations, in the groups of infrastructure, health information management with 193% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of survival, Nano sciences with 247% growth belongs to Saudi Arabia and in the groups of perfection, nursing with 166% growth belongs to Egypt.
Conclusion: In terms of ranked citations and ranked document, Iran has achieved the first rank of the region in the majority of subject areas in 2017. Iran and Saudi Arabia in the majority of thematic areas have had an ascending rate and Israel and Turkey have had a descending rate in the ratio of variation in two periods. Iran has also the highest rank in three thematic areas in terms of citations per document comparing to the competitors.
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