A look at chemistry education publications and their situation

Document Type : Editorial

Abstract

The category of research in the field of chemistry education, despite the very good position and rank of Iran in terms of scientific documents in the field of chemistry, has not been able to develop along with them. Few researches in the field of chemistry education, lack of motivation and enthusiasm of chemistry teachers and on the other hand the low position of these publications in the evaluation scale of the Ministry of Science, which has little scoring value for promotion of professors. According to the author, the officials and vice chancellorship for research, especially Farhangian University, which is in charge of teaching scientific disciplines with an educational approach, including chemistry education in the country, can provide special incentive and support packages for this category of research and then publish their results in domestic journals, and on the other hand, increase the value and rank of a valid article in this category of internal chemistry journals. But all this must be gathered with the love, interest, effort and attention of chemistry teachers and researchers who, despite the small financial benefits and spending a lot of time on researching and publishing the results of their experiences and observations in the field of chemistry education.

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