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Table 2 Top 10 journals in which documents in the field of infectious diseases were mostly published from Arab countries

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

SCR a

Journal

Frequency N = 2408 (%)

IF b

1st

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

202 (8.39)

0.753

2nd

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

138 (5.73)

NA

3nd

Journal of Infectious Diseases

127 (5.27)

5.848

4th

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

115 (4.78)

2.610

5th

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

98 (4.07)

0.996

6th

Emerging Infectious Diseases

80 (3.32)

5.993

7th

Journal of Infection

77 (3.20)

4.073

8th

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

73 (3.03)

2.260

9th

Infection and Immunity

69 (2.87)

4.074

10th

International Journal of Antimicrobial agents

67 (2.78)

4.415

10th

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

67 (2.78)

2.357

  1. Abbreviations: SCR Standard Competition Ranking, NA not available, IF impact factor.
  2. aIf equal journals have the same ranking number, then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.
  3. bThe impact factor was reported according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citation reports (JCR) 2012.