Table 3.
Bibliometric analysis of the 1,240 documents by country
|
Country |
Number of documents |
Total citations |
Median (Q1–Q3) citation |
Total IF |
Median (Q1–Q3) IF |
H index |
Number (%)
b
of documents indexed in ISI |
Number (%)
c
of documents with international authors |
Adjustment index
d
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n =1,240 a (%) a | |||||||||
| Egypt |
617 (49.8) |
5702 |
4 (1–11) |
1277 |
2.2 (1.1–3.0) |
33 |
553 (89.6) |
247 (40.0) |
193.6 |
| KSA |
326 (26.3) |
2098 |
3 (1–7.5) |
631.6 |
2.0 (1.1–3.0) |
21 |
291 (89.3) |
179 (54.9) |
13.0 |
| UAE |
142 (11.5) |
1691 |
7.5 (3–16) |
324.9 |
2.6 (1.4–3.0) |
21 |
128 (90.1) |
94 (66.2) |
3.8 |
| Jordan |
57 (4.6) |
217 |
2 (0–6) |
76.7 |
1.3 (0.0–2.1) |
8 |
46 (80.7) |
33 (57.9) |
11.5 |
| Kuwait |
60 (4.8) |
471 |
4 (1.3–11) |
100.5 |
1.4 (1.3–2.2) |
13 |
56 (93.3) |
26 (43.3) |
1.2 |
| Lebanon |
46 (3.7) |
893 |
9 (1.8–21) |
121.7 |
2.8 (2.1–3.0) |
14 |
43 (93.5) |
25 (54.3) |
4.7 |
| Oman |
34 (2.9) |
538 |
7 (3–14) |
82.8 |
2.7 (1.3–3.1) |
11 |
30 (88.2) |
25 (73.5) |
1.6 |
| Iraq |
20 (1.6) |
54 |
1 (0.0–3.8) |
24.6 |
1.2 (0.0–1.8) |
4 |
13 (65.0) |
10 (50.0) |
3.1 |
| Palestine |
18 (1.5) |
128 |
3.5 (1.8–10.3) |
33.1 |
2.1 (1.4–2.2) |
6 |
17 (94.4) |
11 (61.1) |
18.1 |
| Qatar |
13 (1.0) |
49 |
1 (0.0–5.5) |
17.4 |
1.1 (0.0–2.8) |
4 |
7 (53.8) |
9 (69.2) |
0.2 |
| SAR |
10 (0.8) |
35 |
4 (1.5–5.3) |
22.2 |
2.6 (1.7–3.0) |
4 |
9 (90.0) |
9 (90.0) |
3.0 |
| Yemen |
9 (0.7) |
66 |
5 (1.5–10) |
15.2 |
2.0 (0.0–2.8) |
5 |
7 (77.8) |
9 (100) |
6.0 |
| Bahrain | 4 (0.3) | 7 | 2 (0.0–2.7) | 4.25 | 1.0 (0.0–2.0) | 2 | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25) | 0.2 |
IF, Impact factor; ISI,Institute for Scientific Information; UAE, United Arab Emirates; KSA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; SAR, Syrian Arab Republic; Q1–Q3, Lower quartile – upper quartile.
aTotal exceeds 100% because data are overlapping due to multiple collaborations.
bPercentage of documents indexed in ISI from the total number of documents for each country.
cPercentage of documents with international authors from the total number of documents for each country.
dAn AI was calculated using the following formula: AI = [total number of publications for the country/GDP per capita of the country]*1,000. Where: GDP per capita = GDP/population of the country.