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Table 7.

The top 20 cited toxicology articles from the 13 Middle Eastern Arab countries in Scopus

SCR^a	Authors and year of publication	Title	Journal name	Times cited^b
1^st	Ali et al., 2008	Some phytochemical, pharmacological and toxicological properties of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe): A review of recent research	Food and Chemical Toxicology	191
2^nd	El-Demerdash et al., 2004	Cadmium-induced changes in lipid peroxidation, blood hematology, biochemical parameters and semen quality of male rats: protective role of vitamin E and β-carotene	Food and Chemical Toxicology	175
3^rd	Shihadeh, 2003	Investigation of mainstream smoke aerosol of the argileh water pipe	Food and Chemical Toxicology	162
4^th	El-Demerdash, 2005	Biochemical study on the hypoglycemic effects of onion and garlic in alloxan-induced diabetic rats	Food and Chemical Toxicology	153
5^th	Shihadeh and Saleh, 2005	Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, ‘tar’, and nicotine in the mainstream smoke aerosol of the narghile water pipe	Food and Chemical Toxicology	147
6^th	Jurjus et al., 2004	Animal models of inflammatory bowel disease	Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods	124
7^th	Badary et al., 2003	Thymoquinone is a potent superoxide anion scavenger	Drug and Chemical Toxicology	101
7^th	Mohamed et al., 2003	Estimation of microcystins in the freshwater fish Oreochromis niloticus in an Egyptian fish farm containing a Microcystis bloom	Environmental Toxicology	101
9^th	Ali and Al Moundhri, 2006	Agents ameliorating or augmenting the nephrotoxicity of cisplatin and other platinum compounds: a review of some recent research	Food and Chemical Toxicology	98
10^th	Radwan and Salama, 2006	Market basket survey for some heavy metals in Egyptian fruits and vegetables	Food and Chemical Toxicology	82
11^th	Ali, 2003	Agents ameliorating or augmenting experimental gentamicin nephrotoxicity: some recent research	Food and Chemical Toxicology	79
12^th	Yousef, 2004	Aluminium-induced changes in hemato-biochemical parameters, lipid peroxidation and enzyme activities of male rabbits: protective role of ascorbic acid	Toxicology	77
13^th	Yousef et al., 2006	Deltamethrin-induced oxidative damage and biochemical alterations in rat and its attenuation by Vitamin E	Toxicology	72
14^th	Shalan et al., 2005	Amelioration of lead toxicity on rat liver with Vitamin C and silymarin supplements	Toxicology	71
15^th	Abdel-Wahhab and Aly, 2005	Antioxidant property of Nigella sativa (black cumin) and Syzygium aromaticum (clove) in rats during aflatoxicosis	Journal of Applied Toxicology	69
16^th	El-Sharaky et al., 2007	Protective role of selenium against renal toxicity induced by cadmium in rats	Toxicology	67
17^th	Mansour, 2004	Pesticide exposure – Egyptian scene	Toxicology	61
17^th	Yousef et al., 2003	Changes in some hematological and biochemical indices of rabbits induced by isoflavones and cypermethrin	Toxicology	61
19^th	Raza and John, 2006	4-Hydroxynonenal induces mitochondrial oxidative stress, apoptosis and expression of glutathione S-transferase A4-4 and cytochrome P450 2E1 in PC12 cells	Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology	60
20^th	Sepetdjian et al., 2008	Measurement of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in narghile waterpipe tobacco smoke	Food and Chemical Toxicology	57

SCR, Standard Competition Ranking.

^aEqual articles have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.

^bTime cited at the time of data analysis (December 13, 2013).