ارزیابی همراستایی بروندادهای علمی حوزه زیست فناوری ایران با اهداف توسعه پایدار سازمان ملل متحد.

Today, the criterion for distinguishing countries is their use of technology in different dimensions of development. The role of research in achievement of sustainable development goals has been recognized. The present study tried to assessment the alignment of the Iran's biotechnology scientific outputs with the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. The current research is practical in terms of its purpose and it was carried out with a scientometric perspective, which used library methods to develop theoretical foundations and retrospective bibliometric analysis to collect data. The statistical population is all the Iranian researchers’ scientific outputs indexed in the Scopus in the field of "Biotechnology" from 2012 to 2021. For analyzing the Iran's biotechnology papers in line with the sustainable development goals of the United Nations, Scival data has been extracted. Examination of the alignment of Iran's scientific outputs in biotechnology with the goals of sustainable development. Accordingly, "Good Health and Well-Being" had the highest volume and percentage of publications in this field. In this way, Iran's strength is in terms of the quantity of scientific activities in biotechnology in order to achieve the desired goals. "Climate Action" and "Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions" had Field-Weighted Citation Impact (1.57), and citations counts received in the goal of "Good Health and WellBeing" (1392118) was more than other domains. Therefore, these three categories are the strength of the country in terms of the quality of scientific outputs in biotechnology and in accordance with the goals of sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]