Middle East: research productivity and performance across nations

Sumeer Gul (), Nahida Tun Nisa (), Tariq Ahmad Shah (), Sangita Gupta (), Asifa Jan () and Suhail Ahmad ()
Additional contact information
Sumeer Gul: University of Kashmir
Nahida Tun Nisa: Government College for Women
Tariq Ahmad Shah: Islamic University of Science and Technology
Sangita Gupta: University of Jammu
Asifa Jan: University of Kashmir
Suhail Ahmad: Giessen University

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 105, issue 2, No 28, 1157-1166

Abstract: Abstract The aim of the paper is to evaluate the research productivity and performance of countries that fall in the Middle East. The data was gathered from the research analytical tool of Thomson Reuters, InCites. The data was collected over a period of 33 years (1981 through 2013) with “global comparisons” as the dataset and “compare countries/territories” as the report name under “national comparisons”. The data was collected from 15 countries of Middle East (as per InCites categorization) viz; Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Each country was assessed on the basis of six parameters: total no. of web of science documents; total citation count; average citations per documents, percentage of cited documents; impact relative to the world; and aggregate performance indicator. On all these parameters, Israel occupies the first position. The 2nd rank in terms of total web of science documents and total citation count is occupied by Turkey. Kuwait has 2nd highest percentage of cited documents, and Lebanon occupies 2nd rank in terms of relative impact (in comparison to world). In terms of aggregate performance, Qatar ranks 2nd.

Keywords: Research output; Research performance; InCites; Bibliometrics; Research indicators; Research analytics; Analytical tools; Middle East (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-015-1722-3 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:scient:v:105:y:2015:i:2:d:10.1007_s11192-015-1722-3

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11192

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1722-3

Access Statistics for this article

Scientometrics is currently edited by Wolfgang Glänzel

More articles in Scientometrics from Springer, Akadémiai Kiadó
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().