Iran's scientific articles surpass 21,000

Iran's Vice-President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah announced that Iran ranked second in the world region by producing 21,000 scientific articles in the year 2011. Soltankhah said that Iran had 3,000 more scientific articles in 2011 in comparison to last year. She also noted Iran ranked 12 in the field of nanotechnology and 14 by producing one percent of scientific articles in the environment technology