http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/middle-eastern-countries-ramp-their-scientific-publications

Iran’s Sharif University of Technology has helped drive an increase in the country’s published scientific papers.

After years of lagging scientifically, countries in the Middle East and North Africa have significantly boosted their share of scholarly articles in international journals—as well as citations to those papers—during the past 4 decades, the Clarivate analytics firm said last week. Further growth could occur if the region’s countries boost their low rate of scientific cooperation with each other, it said.