Table 5.

Percent national contribution and citations per paper of the 10 most productive institutions in Arab countries between 2007 and 2016; countries ranked in descending order of the number of citations per paper

Rank	Institution and country	Papers per institution	Papers per country	Percent national contribution	Citations per paper*
1	American University of Beirut – Lebanon	2794	4433	63	13.8
2	King Abdulaziz University – Saudi Arabia	4151	21897	19	13.0
3	King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre – Saudi Arabia	2057	21897	9	12.7
4	Kuwait University – Kuwait	1862	2862	65	10.4
5	Cairo University – Egypt	5750	24 692	23	9.5
6	Mansoura University – Egypt	2803	24 692	11	9.3
7	Ain Shams University – Egypt	3089	24 692	13	9.0
8	Alexandria University – Egypt	2345	24 692	9	8.8
9	King Saud University – Saudi Arabia	8623	21 897	39	8.3
10	Universite de Tunis El Manar – Tunisia	2998	8769	34	8.0

*Source: Web of Science (November 2017), covering papers for the period 2007 – 2016 cited from January 2007 up to November 2017.