Recent trends in Middle Eastern scientific production

Antonio Cavacini ()
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Antonio Cavacini: University of Milan

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 109, issue 1, No 21, 423-432

Abstract: Abstract We compared the scientific output of 16 countries from the Middle East during the period 1996–2014 to 27 countries from West Europe and to the average world production, analyzing data year by year, in order to find trends. Overall, our data shows that during the period 1996–2014 Israel was the leading nation in the Middle East in terms of the total number of citations and of total citations per document, while Turkey and Iran were in the lead in terms of scientific documents produced and, together with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, were among the emerging countries in the Middle East in terms of scientific production. Israel has been slowing losing its relative (to the world) weight in terms of scientific production over the last years, following a trend that mirrors Western Europe countries, due to a rapid increase in scientific production and rising impact of new emerging countries. Also, while four emerging countries (Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt) have been rapidly rising, the bottom countries were still under-performing when compared to the world average. Our findings show that the Middle Eastern counties greatly differed in terms of scientific production over time, that no common trend could be found among them, and that there was a profound imbalance in terms of scientific performance, highlighting a big divide between the top 5 and the other countries of the Middle East.

Keywords: Middle East; Western Europe; Scientific production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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