Table 2 Comparison of original biomedical research performance in 16 Arab countries and three non-Arab Middle Eastern countries (2001–2005)
Countries | P-Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Arab | Middle Eastern | ||
Number of articles according to SCI-expanded | 14374.0 | 49110.0 | < 0.001 |
Number of articles according to PubMed | 5775.0 | 25634.0 | < 0.001 |
Number of publications in the high-impact journals | 83.0 | 412.0 | < 0.001 |
Annual publication rate per one million population | 10.8 | 62.1 | 0.029 |
Annual publication rate per one billion (US$) GPD | 2.7 | 13.1 | 0.001 |
Annual publication rate per GPD/capita | 0.7 | 2.1 | < 0.001 |