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Table 1 List of Arab countries and three non-Arab countries in the Middle East and their Standard Competition Ranks (SCRs) in worldwide research productivity in the field of infectious diseases

From: Assessment of research productivity of Arab countries in the field of infectious diseases using Web of Science database

Arab Countries

Worldwide SCR *

Egypt

56

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

60

Tunisia

68

Morocco

81

Kuwait

91

Lebanon

93

Sudan

86

Algeria

103

United Arab Emirates

105

Jordan

130

Qatar

136

Bahrain

143

Oman

157

Iraq

163

Syria

162

Yemen

175

Libya

170

Mauritania

177

Palestine

N/A*

Somalia

210

Comoros

213

Djibouti

218

Non-Arab countries

 

Israel

25

Turkey

31

Iran

46

  1. *Palestine is not recognized as an independent state in the WoS database, so rank could not be determine. Retrieval of documents from Palestine was explained in the methodology section.