Alotaibi Fawaz Mutlaq, Almotlak Abdulaziz Abdullah, Ahmad Shakil
Pharmacy Practice Department, College of Clinical Pharmacy, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
Pharmacology Department, College of Clinical Pharmacy, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Pharm J. 2022 Jul;30(7):1003-1008. doi: 10.1016/j.jsps.2022.04.016. Epub 2022 Apr 30.
Pharmacy is a growing profession in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which has experienced tremendous changes in the past 20 years. Pharmacy practice or clinical pharmacy have an attention ever since the emerging of PharmD programs throughout the Saudi universities. As a result, the number of affiliated faculty in the pharmacy practice departments has increased dramatically in the past 20 years and thus significant changes in research output were observed.
The main objective is to conduct a bibliometric analysis and evaluate the research output of pharmacy practice faculty in Saudi Universities from 2000 to 2021.
A systematic search was conducted using Scopus database to explore the research output from pharmacy practice affiliated faculty from 2000 to 2021. The following search terms AFFILORG ("Pharmacy Practice Department" OR "Department of Pharmacy practice" OR "Clinical Pharmacy Department" OR "Department of Clinical Pharmacy" OR "Department of Pharmacy Services") AND AFFILCOUNTRY ("Saudi Arabia" OR "KSA" OR "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia") were used. Only original research papers were retrieved and analyzed using MS Excel (v16.0), MS Access (v16.0), Bibexcel (v2017), VOS viewer, and Biblioshiny.
In the past two decades, most publications with pharmacy practice departments affiliation were pharmacy practice research irrelevant (only 1075 out of 2809). King Saud University and King Abdulaziz University were the top performing institutes, and median of 5-year impact factor for journals was more than 3 for most of the top 10 institutes. 19% of the total retrieved articles were review publications were the rest majorly classified as cross-sectional studies.
The research contribution of pharmacy practice departments in Saudi Arabia has been improving. Key recommendations are to promote more applied and interventional research, increase publications in top journals, and enhance national collaborations.
在沙特阿拉伯王国，药学是一个不断发展的专业，在过去20年里经历了巨大的变化。自从沙特各大学开设药学博士项目以来，药学实践或临床药学一直备受关注。因此，在过去20年里，药学实践部门的附属教员数量急剧增加，研究产出也出现了显著变化。
主要目的是进行文献计量分析，并评估沙特各大学药学实践教员在2000年至2021年期间的研究产出。
使用Scopus数据库进行系统检索，以探索2000年至2021年药学实践附属教员的研究产出。使用了以下检索词：AFFILORG（“药学实践部门”或“药学实践系”或“临床药学部门”或“临床药学系”或“药学服务部门”）以及AFFILCOUNTRY（“沙特阿拉伯”或“KSA”或“沙特阿拉伯王国”）。仅检索并使用MS Excel（v16.0）、MS Access（v16.0）、Bibexcel（v2017）、VOS viewer和Biblioshiny对原创研究论文进行分析。
在过去二十年中，大多数隶属于药学实践部门的出版物与药学实践研究无关（2809篇中只有1075篇）。沙特国王大学和阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学是表现最佳的机构，大多数排名前十的机构中，期刊的5年影响因子中位数超过3。检索到的文章中有19%是综述性出版物，其余主要归类为横断面研究。
沙特阿拉伯药学实践部门的研究贡献一直在提高。主要建议是促进更多的应用研究和干预性研究，增加在顶级期刊上的发表数量，并加强国内合作。
