Table 3.
- Top 10 target Arab medical research journals for researchers in Arab countries (ranked in descending order by number of publications, out of a total of 43 journals).
| Rank | Journal names | Publication sources | Total publications (n) * | Publications from Arab countries (n) | % Of publications from Arab countries † | Times cited (n) | JIF quartile | Journal IF ‡ | 5 year IF | Citation impact § |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences | Saudi Arabia | 2,900 | 1,852 | 63.86 | 26,068 | Q2 | 4.05 | 4.25 | 8.99 |
| 2 | Current Pharmaceutical Design | United Arab Emirates | 2,671 | 237 | 8.87 | 27,484 | Q3 | 3.31 | 3.55 | 10.29 |
| 3 | Current Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 2,066 | 89 | 4.31 | 26,343 | Q2 | 4.74 | 5.05 | 12.75 |
| 4 | Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 1,320 | 179 | 13.56 | 9,090 | Q3 | 2.47 | 2.84 | 6.89 |
| 5 | Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 1,047 | 713 | 68.10 | 12,069 | Q2 | 4.56 | 5.09 | 11.53 |
| 6 | Saudi Medical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 988 | 772 | 78.14 | 4,515 | Q4 | 1.42 | 2.12 | 4.57 |
| 7 | Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 854 | 81 | 9.48 | 8,429 | Q2 | 3.74 | 4.06 | 9.87 |
| 8 | Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology | United Arab Emirates | 846 | 95 | 11.23 | 5,812 | Q3 | 2.83 | 2.78 | 6.87 |
| 9 | Current Drug Targets | United Arab Emirates | 837 | 40 | 4.78 | 8,746 | Q3 | 2.94 | 3.60 | 10.45 |
| 10 | Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets | United Arab Emirates | 793 | 129 | 16.27 | 4,108 | Q4 | 2.39 | 2.47 | 5.18 |
Note: Arab countries that have at least one medical research journal: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Iraq, Morocco, Kuwait, Algeria, Bahrain, and Libya; Arab countries that do not have any medical research journals indexed in Web of Science: Sudan, Oman, Palestine, Syria, Djibouti, Comoros, Yemen, Mauritania, and Somalia.
Publications from all world countries (including Arab countries).
The number of publications from Arab world researchers divided by the total number of publications from the same journal.
Journal impact factor source: Journal Citation Reports (2021).
Citation impact is times cited divided by publications number from the same journal.
JIF: journal impact factor, Q: quartile, IF: impact factor