Table 2.
Research areas of published obesity documents from Arab countries
| SCR a | Research area |
Number (%) |
|---|---|---|
| n = 1,121 | ||
|
1
st
|
General Internal Medicine |
232 (20.7) |
|
2
nd
|
Endocrinology Metabolism |
191 (17.04) |
|
3
rd
|
Nutrition Dietetics |
155 (13.83) |
|
4
th
|
Public Environmental Occupational Health |
91 (8.12) |
|
5
th
|
Cardiovascular System Cardiology |
62 (5.53) |
|
5
th
|
Surgery |
62 (5.53) |
|
7
th
|
Research Experimental Medicine |
56 (5.0) |
|
8
th
|
Pediatrics |
49 (4.37) |
|
9
th
|
Pharmacology Pharmacy |
38 (3.39) |
| 10 th | Biochemistry Molecular Biology | 36 (3.21) |
SCR, Standard Competition Ranking.
aEqual research areas have the same ranking number and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.