In Iran academic promotion is based on different criteria like: number of international and domestic articles, teaching features, number of projects from inside and outside of university, and presentation in important conferences.
In Iranian universities for academic promotion (for example, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor) in the four steps you need to get the required scores:
1- cultural scores (for example, participation in cultural courses such as Islamic education, professional ethics, religious knowledge, Islamic lifestyle, ... or book publishing or article in field cultural issues, ...)
2. Educational scores (e.g number of teaching units and evaluation of students from their teachers, ...) quantity and quality of training
3. The research scores (which is the most important step) includes the number of books and articles published in journals, conferences, the number of supervised or advised dissertations or thesis, number of projects, ....
4. Executive scores (e.g taking executive and managerial responsibilities at the university, such as the director or deputy of the university or faculty)
These four steps must be done in a sequential manner, For example, if we do not get the necessary scores in the cultural sector and then the educational scores, the third stage will not be performed, although we have gained many scores in this section.
Of course, the third step, which deals with research activities, has several parts and the published articles are one of these parts.
In this section, the number of articles and the journal in which the article is published is important.
Articles are evaluated according to the degree of journal(Q1, ...Q4) and iF of journals . For example, an article published in Q1-journals has maximum 7 scores.
Of course, the type and level or rank of the university (Comprehensive University, of Industrial University, .... or University Level 1, Level 2, ...) moderate these scores.
For example, at Level 1 comprehensive universities, at least 35 points from this section should be obtained.