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Table 3 Bibliometric analysis of the 591 documents by country

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

SCRa

Countries

No. of articles (%)

h-index

Average of citation

No. of foreign countries that the main country collaborated with

No. of documents with international collaborations

Adjustment indexb

1st

KSA

148 (25.0)

19

9.2

24

70

5.89

2nd

Egypt

99 (16.8)

21

13.3

27

46

31.06

3nd

Morocco

96 (16.2)

27

24.5

16

64

32.53

4th

Jordan

52 (8.8)

21

22.1

8

9

10.52

5th

Tunisia

33 (5.6)

10

6.7

7

14

7.79

6th

Yemen

32 (5.4)

12

15.1

12

26

21.41

7th

Algeria

24 (4.1)

9

11.2

9

14

4.49

8th

Palestine

21 (3.6)

11

28.1

4

5

21.16

8th

Iraq

21 (3.6)

11

22.4

4

7

3.25

10th

Lebanon

20 (3.4)

10

14.2

7

10

2.06

11th

Sudan

19 (3.2)

10

17.8

11

12

12.03

12th

UAE

18 (3.1)

10

17.6

10

8

0.48

12th

Oman

18 (3.1)

7

13.5

14

11

0.85

14th

Somalia

8 (1.4)

6

17.1

2

6

88.99

15th

Kuwait

5 (0.9)

4

11.6

0

0

0.1

16th

Bahrain

4 (0.7)

2

2.8

4

4

0.18

17th

Libya

3 (0.5)

3

29

3

2

0.3

18th

SAR

1 (0.2)

1

-

2

1

0.3

18th

Qatar

1 (0.2)

1

-

1

1

0.01

18th

Comoros

1(0.2)

1

-

1

1

1.2

21st

Djibouti

0 (0.0)

-

-

-

-

-

21st

Mauritania

0 (0.0)

-

-

-

-

-

  1. Abbreviations: KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, SAR Syrian Arab Republic, SCR Standard Competition Ranking, UAE United Arab Emirates
  2. aEqual countries have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. bAn adjustment index (AI) was calculated using the following formula: AI = [total number of publications for the country / GDP per capita of the country]*1000. Where: GDP per capita = GDP/population of the country