an analysis of scientific poverty line of iranian researchers and compared with top scientists of islamic countries

to study the scholarly production of iran in the basic sciences and identify the place of the country among islamic countries and the world, and also comparing the different disciplines in this field of knowledge, help to plan properly to provide necessary facilities for the advancement in these areas. the purpose of this study is the analysis of scientific poverty line of iranian scientists and comparing them to the scientists of the superior islamic countries. this is an applied research. data were gathered and analyzed with the descriptive approach. in this study data collected from isi during 1990 to 2011. five disciplines of basic sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and earth science were studied. yi and xi and sx scientometrics indicators were used. based on the findings of this research, iran with 35542 documents, academic ability 0.509 % and the relative performance of 0.468% is in the first place among the islamic countries. iran also is in the first place in physics, chemistry, earth science and mathematics and in second place in biology among the islamic countries. despite iran's ranking first among muslim countries, it is below the scientific poverty line in terms of xi and sx indicators. so it seems necessary to pay more attention to production and distribution of basic science especially in biology. the weaknesses and barriers also should be recognized.