Scientific publications from Arab world in leading journals of Integrative and Complementary Medicine: a bibliometric analysis

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Sa'ed H ZyoudWaleed M Sweileh

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis is increasingly employed as a useful tool to assess the quantity and quality of research performance. The specific goal of the current study was to evaluate the performance of research output originating from Arab world and published in international Integrative and Complementary Medicine (ICM) journals. Original scientific publications and reviews from the 22 Arab countries that were published in 22 international peer-reviewed ICM journals during all previous years up to December 31(st) 2013, were screened using the Web of Science databases. Five hundred and ninety-one documents were retrieved from 19 ICM journals. The h-index of the set of papers under study was 47. The highest h-index was 27 for Morocco, 21 for Jordan, followed by 19 for each Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and Egypt, and the lowest h-index was 1 for each of Comoros, Qatar, and Syrian Arab Republic. No data related to ICM were published from Djibouti, and Mauritania. After adjusting for economy and population power, Somalia (89), Morocco (32.5), Egypt (31.1), Yemen (21.4), and Palestine (21.2) had the highest research productivity. The total number of citations was 9,466, with an average citation of 16 per document. The study identified ...Continue Reading

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Jul 13, 2017·Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics : JERHRE·Omar F KhabourNihaya A Al-Sheyab
Jul 26, 2018·The International Journal of Pharmacy Practice·Waleed M SweilehAdham S AbuTaha
Sep 22, 2018·Drug and Chemical Toxicology·Sa'ed H ZyoudWaleed M Sweileh
Jul 7, 2016·Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine·Sa'ed H ZyoudRahmat Awang
Jul 13, 2016·BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine·Sa'ed H ZyoudRahmat Awang
Aug 7, 2018·Infectious Diseases of Poverty·Waleed M Sweileh
Apr 4, 2019·Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : ECAM·Yi-Bing ChenYuan-Lu Cui
Oct 12, 2018·BioMed Research International·Maulilio J Kipanyula, Alfred S Sife
Jul 22, 2020·BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies·Abdelraouf O SalahSamah W Al-Jabi
Nov 26, 2016·Globalization and Health·Waleed M SweilehAdham S Abu-Taha
Oct 22, 2020·Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : ECAM·Zuoqi Ding, Furong Li
Apr 3, 2021·BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies·Yara QuzmarSamah W Al-Jabi

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