According to Semnan University public relations report; Announcing this news, Dr. Mohammad Hossein Ehsani said: In this ranking, Semnan University has managed to get the 902nd global rank in the scientific authority criterion, the 1,188th global rank in scientific diplomacy, and free access to publications among the world's universities.

Dr. Ehsani added: This is even though Semnan University was ranked thousand and 108th in the world in terms of gender diversity.

Semnan University Vice-Chancellor of Research and Technology said: In the latest Leiden 2023 ranking, the names of 46 Iranian universities appear.

Dr. Ehsani pointed out and specified the criteria considered for each ranking: scientific reference criterion (scientific impact) from the total number of publications and indicators such as top 1% of articles, top 5% of articles, top 10% of articles, and top 50% articles In the form of number and share of the total and the total number of publications, the total and average number of citations of the university's publications, as well as the total and average number of normalized citations (by field and year) of the university have been used.

Dr. Ehsani said: In the criterion of scientific diplomacy, indicators such as the total number of publications, scientific cooperation, international cooperation, industrial cooperation, scientific cooperation with a geographical distance of less than 100 km, and scientific cooperation with a geographical distance of more than 5000 km (in the form of number and share of the total) have used the whole.

He continued: The criterion of access to open publications is also composed of the total number of publications and indicators of open access publications, golden open access publications, hybrid open access publications, bronze open access publications, and green open access publications (in the form of number and share of the total).

In the end, Dr. Ehsani pointed out: the measure of gender diversity is also based on the total number of authors and indicators such as the number of male and female authors, the number and proportion of authors whose gender is not known, male authors (in proportion to the total number of authors), female authors (in proportion to the total number of authors), male authors  (in proportion to all male and female authors), female authors (in proportion to all male and female authors).