Zyoud Sa'ed H, Al-Jabi Samah W, Sweileh Waleed M
Poison Control and Drug Information Center (PCDIC), College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
BMC Complement Altern Med. 2015 Sep 4;15:308. doi: 10.1186/s12906-015-0840-z.
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 262 (44.3 %) documents with 39 countries in Arab-foreign country collaborations. Arab authors collaborated most with countries in Europe (24.2 %), followed by countries in the Asia-Pacific region (9.8 %).
Scientific research output in the ICM field in the Arab world region is increasing. Most of publications from Arab world in ICM filed were driven by societal use of medicinal plants and herbs. Search for new therapies from available low cost medicinal plants in Arab world has motivated many researchers in academia and pharmaceutical industry. Further investigation is required to support these findings in a wider journal as well as to improve research output in the field of ICM from Arab world region by investing in more national and international collaborative research project.
文献计量分析日益被用作评估研究绩效数量和质量的有用工具。本研究的具体目标是评估源自阿拉伯世界并发表在国际综合与补充医学（ICM）期刊上的研究产出的表现。
使用科学网数据库筛选了截至2013年12月31日之前所有年份在22种国际同行评审的ICM期刊上发表的来自22个阿拉伯国家的原始科学出版物和综述。
从19种ICM期刊中检索到591篇文献。所研究的这组论文的h指数为47。h指数最高的是摩洛哥，为27；约旦为21；其次是沙特阿拉伯王国（KSA）和埃及，均为19；科摩罗、卡塔尔和阿拉伯叙利亚共和国的h指数最低，均为1。吉布提和毛里塔尼亚没有发表与ICM相关的数据。在调整经济和人口实力后，索马里（89）、摩洛哥（32.5）、埃及（31.1）、也门（21.4）和巴勒斯坦（21.2）的研究生产力最高。总被引次数为9466次，平均每篇文献被引16次。该研究确定了262篇（44.3%）文献存在阿拉伯国家与外国的39项合作。阿拉伯作者与欧洲国家的合作最多（24.2%），其次是亚太地区国家（9.8%）。
阿拉伯世界地区ICM领域的科研产出正在增加。阿拉伯世界在ICM领域的大多数出版物是受药用植物和草药的社会用途驱动的。在阿拉伯世界寻找可用的低成本药用植物的新疗法激发了学术界和制药行业的许多研究人员。需要进一步调查以在更广泛的期刊中支持这些发现，并通过投资更多的国内和国际合作研究项目来提高阿拉伯世界地区ICM领域的研究产出。
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