Improving medical research in the Arab world

摘要

Arab nations' medical research output and broad impact are weak according to the 2013 Scimago Institutions Rankings report (of the 2740 universities and research institutions worldwide, only 60 were from Arab countries), which echoes the Scimago Journal and Country Rank (1996–2012),and the 2013 Shanghai Ranking (appendix).Arab institutions were linked with 76?417 reports published between 1996 and 2012, which is only 4% of medical research reports by US-based institutions (table). Medical research publication from institutions from all Arab countries is almost half of that from Turkey, almost the same as that from Israel, and double that from Iran, but with a lower H index average (table).