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Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficient between GDP per capita, spending on R&D as % of total GDP, number of medical schools/medical universities and total number of research publication and medical education publications in ISI web of Science among GCC countries

Parameters	Total number of publication in Web of Science	Medical Education Publications in Web of Science
GDP per capita US$	r² = 0.108	r² = 0.099
GDP per capita US$	p = 0.524	p = 0.543
Spending on R&D	r² = 0.106	r² = 0.080
Spending on R&D	p = 0.529	p = 0.585
Medical Schools/Medical Universities	r² = 0.976	r² = 0.986
Medical Schools/Medical Universities	p = 0.0001	p = 0.0001