Is there relationship between cultural-economic indicators and the scientific status of countries? Analysis of Western and Central Asian countries using a neural network algorithm

Abstract

In this research, the relationship between cultural, economic, R&D indicators with the position and influence of scientific productions of the group countries of India, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan in Central and Western Asia has been identified. The time period of conducting is from 2001 to 2020, when the required the data were obtained from UNESCO, Scimago, and JCR, and MATLAB, Excel, and also Feed forward Neural Network Algorithm were used for data analysis. The findings show the R&D indicators, economic indicators, and cultural indicators have played a role in improving the scientific position of this group of countries, respectively.