Table 1 The total number of original research articles from 16 Arab countries and three non-Arab Middle Eastern countries published in PubMed and SCI-expanded during 2001–2005 and their citations frequencies (impact factors).
Country | Number of articles in | Impact factor* | h-index | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PubMed | SCI | high impact journals | |||
Iran | 1910 | 2965 | 5 | 4.96 | 31 |
Israel | 13637 | 20504 | 369 | 11.89 | 110 |
Turkey | 10087 | 25641 | 38 | 4.5 | 56 |
Total | 25643 | 49110 | 412 | 7.1** | |
Algeria | 84 | 254 | 5 | 9.19 | 21 |
Bahrain | 51 | 158 | 0 | 2.61 | 8 |
Egypt | 1180 | 3214 | 9 | 5.78 | 37 |
Iraq | 64 | 138 | 3 | 3.84 | 11 |
Jordan | 464 | 822 | 5 | 3.7 | 20 |
Kuwait | 632 | 1207 | 8 | 4.78 | 24 |
Lebanon | 447 | 965 | 7 | 6.14 | 31 |
Libya | 19 | 87 | 0 | 3.18 | 9 |
Morocco | 346 | 1267 | 6 | 3.74 | 23 |
Oman | 134 | 436 | 3 | 3.43 | 14 |
Qatar | 50 | 166 | 0 | 3.2 | 9 |
Saudi Arabia | 999 | 3134 | 22 | 4.26 | 38 |
Syria | 58 | 130 | 0 | 6.01 | 13 |
Sudan | 134 | 265 | 3 | 7.18 | 18 |
Tunisia | 592 | 1376 | 9 | 4.77 | 26 |
UAE*** | 521 | 755 | 3 | 5.93 | 26 |
Total | 5775 | 14374 | 83 | 4.9** | |