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Citation Analysis is a powerful and widely accepted tool designed to evaluate the research activities of scientists, universities, institutions and scientific journals over the world. It is applied to make essential decisions about various types of stakeholders (i.e., students, faculty, researchers, analysts, and program managers) worldwide. Until recently, WoS was the only institution assessing research performance of countries based on citation studies. Later Scopus, affiliated to Elsevier Publishing Corporation, began its activity in the same field and is by now identified as one of ISI’s major competitors. WoS and Scopus products are internationally recognized as outstanding scientometric centers. However, due to their biased attitude towards English language, most of scientific documents of non-English speaking countries published in native languages, have become deprived of being indexed in those popular international indexing systems. This, in turn, leads to the isolation of the scientific publications of the alleged countries in the scientific world. To solve this important problem, based on the ratification of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution on April 29th, 2008, the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran established ISC as a scientometric Center with a special commission. ISC’s major commission is to assess the research performance of scientists, universities, institutions and scientific journals of countries and to provide necessary grounds for enhancing the quality of research and establishing an efficient scientific network in the World.