Links to Exploration step
Le document en format XML
<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Bibliometric analysis of nutrition and dietetics research activity in Arab countries using ISI Web of Science database</title><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Waleed M" sort="Sweileh, Waleed M" uniqKey="Sweileh W" first="Waleed M" last="Sweileh">Waleed M. Sweileh</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Samah W" sort="Al Jabi, Samah W" uniqKey="Al Jabi S" first="Samah W" last="Al-Jabi">Samah W. Al-Jabi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Sawalha, Ansam F" sort="Sawalha, Ansam F" uniqKey="Sawalha A" first="Ansam F" last="Sawalha">Ansam F. Sawalha</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sa D H" sort="Zyoud, Sa D H" uniqKey="Zyoud S" first="Sa D H" last="Zyoud">Sa D H. Zyoud</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">25674458</idno><idno type="pmc">4320167</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320167</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:4320167</idno><idno type="doi">10.1186/2193-1801-3-718</idno><date when="2014">2014</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">000076</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">000076</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Bibliometric analysis of nutrition and dietetics research activity in Arab countries using ISI Web of Science database</title><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Waleed M" sort="Sweileh, Waleed M" uniqKey="Sweileh W" first="Waleed M" last="Sweileh">Waleed M. Sweileh</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Samah W" sort="Al Jabi, Samah W" uniqKey="Al Jabi S" first="Samah W" last="Al-Jabi">Samah W. Al-Jabi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Sawalha, Ansam F" sort="Sawalha, Ansam F" uniqKey="Sawalha A" first="Ansam F" last="Sawalha">Ansam F. Sawalha</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sa D H" sort="Zyoud, Sa D H" uniqKey="Zyoud S" first="Sa D H" last="Zyoud">Sa D H. Zyoud</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff2">Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">SpringerPlus</title><idno type="eISSN">2193-1801</idno><imprint><date when="2014">2014</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Reducing nutrition-related health problems in Arab countries requires an understanding of the performance of Arab countries in the field of nutrition and dietetics research. Assessment of research activity from a particular country or region could be achieved through bibliometric analysis. This study was carried out to investigate research activity in “nutrition and dietetics” in Arab countries. Original and review articles published from Arab countries in “nutrition and dietetics” Web of Science category up until 2012 were retrieved and analyzed using the ISI Web of Science database. The total number of documents published in “nutrition and dietetics” category from Arab countries was 2062. This constitutes 1% of worldwide research activity in the field. Annual research productivity showed a significant increase after 2005. Approximately 60% of published documents originated from three Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. However, Kuwait has the highest research productivity per million inhabitants. Main research areas of published documents were in “Food Science/Technology” and “Chemistry” which constituted 75% of published documents compared with 25% for worldwide documents in nutrition and dietetics. A total of 329 (15.96%) nutrition - related diabetes or obesity or cancer documents were published from Arab countries compared with 21% for worldwide published documents. Interest in nutrition and dietetics research is relatively recent in Arab countries. Focus of nutrition research is mainly toward food technology and chemistry with lesser activity toward nutrition-related health research. International cooperation in nutrition research will definitely help Arab researchers in implementing nutrition research that will lead to better national policies regarding nutrition.</p><sec><title>Electronic supplementary material</title><p>The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-718) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.</p></sec></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Ahmed, Smz" uniqKey="Ahmed S">SMZ Ahmed</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rahman, Ma" uniqKey="Rahman M">MA Rahman</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Akl, Ea" uniqKey="Akl E">EA Akl</name></author><author><name sortKey="Gunukula, Sk" uniqKey="Gunukula S">SK Gunukula</name></author><author><name sortKey="Aleem, S" uniqKey="Aleem S">S Aleem</name></author><author><name sortKey="Obeid, R" uniqKey="Obeid R">R Obeid</name></author><author><name sortKey="Jaoude, Pa" uniqKey="Jaoude P">PA Jaoude</name></author><author><name sortKey="Honeine, R" uniqKey="Honeine R">R Honeine</name></author><author><name sortKey="Irani, J" uniqKey="Irani J">J Irani</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Alwan, A" uniqKey="Alwan A">A Alwan</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Bramness, Jg" uniqKey="Bramness J">JG Bramness</name></author><author><name sortKey="Henriksen, B" uniqKey="Henriksen B">B Henriksen</name></author><author><name sortKey="Person, O" uniqKey="Person O">O Person</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mann, K" uniqKey="Mann K">K Mann</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Bull, F" uniqKey="Bull F">F Bull</name></author><author><name sortKey="Dvorak, J" uniqKey="Dvorak J">J Dvorak</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="De Battisti, F" uniqKey="De Battisti F">F De Battisti</name></author><author><name sortKey="Salini, S" uniqKey="Salini S">S Salini</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="El Mugamer, I" uniqKey="El Mugamer I">I El Mugamer</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ali, Za" uniqKey="Ali Z">ZA Ali</name></author><author><name sortKey="Hossain, M" uniqKey="Hossain M">M Hossain</name></author><author><name sortKey="Pugh, R" uniqKey="Pugh R">R Pugh</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Fahed, Ac" uniqKey="Fahed A">AC Fahed</name></author><author><name sortKey="El Hage Sleiman, A Km" uniqKey="El Hage Sleiman A">A-KM El-Hage-Sleiman</name></author><author><name sortKey="Farhat, Ti" uniqKey="Farhat T">TI Farhat</name></author><author><name sortKey="Nemer, Gm" uniqKey="Nemer G">GM Nemer</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Falagas, Me" uniqKey="Falagas M">ME Falagas</name></author><author><name sortKey="Pitsouni, Ei" uniqKey="Pitsouni E">EI Pitsouni</name></author><author><name sortKey="Malietzis, Ga" uniqKey="Malietzis G">GA Malietzis</name></author><author><name sortKey="Pappas, G" uniqKey="Pappas G">G Pappas</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Hirsch, Je" uniqKey="Hirsch J">JE Hirsch</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Hubail, Ar" uniqKey="Hubail A">AR Hubail</name></author><author><name sortKey="Culligan, Kg" uniqKey="Culligan K">KG Culligan</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Ibrahim, Mm" uniqKey="Ibrahim M">MM Ibrahim</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rizk, H" uniqKey="Rizk H">H Rizk</name></author><author><name sortKey="Appel, Lj" uniqKey="Appel L">LJ Appel</name></author><author><name sortKey="El Aroussy, W" uniqKey="El Aroussy W">W El Aroussy</name></author><author><name sortKey="Helmy, S" uniqKey="Helmy S">S Helmy</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sharaf, Y" uniqKey="Sharaf Y">Y Sharaf</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ashour, Z" uniqKey="Ashour Z">Z Ashour</name></author><author><name sortKey="Kandil, H" uniqKey="Kandil H">H Kandil</name></author><author><name sortKey="Roccella, E" uniqKey="Roccella E">E Roccella</name></author><author><name sortKey="Whelton, Pk" uniqKey="Whelton P">PK Whelton</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Maziak, W" uniqKey="Maziak W">W Maziak</name></author><author><name sortKey="Nakkash, R" uniqKey="Nakkash R">R Nakkash</name></author><author><name sortKey="Bahelah, R" uniqKey="Bahelah R">R Bahelah</name></author><author><name sortKey="Husseini, A" uniqKey="Husseini A">A Husseini</name></author><author><name sortKey="Fanous, N" uniqKey="Fanous N">N Fanous</name></author><author><name sortKey="Eissenberg, T" uniqKey="Eissenberg T">T Eissenberg</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Mokdad, Ah" uniqKey="Mokdad A">AH Mokdad</name></author><author><name sortKey="Jaber, S" uniqKey="Jaber S">S Jaber</name></author><author><name sortKey="Aziz, Mia" uniqKey="Aziz M">MIA Aziz</name></author><author><name sortKey="Albuhairan, F" uniqKey="Albuhairan F">F AlBuhairan</name></author><author><name sortKey="Alghaithi, A" uniqKey="Alghaithi A">A AlGhaithi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Alhamad, Nm" uniqKey="Alhamad N">NM AlHamad</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Hooti, Sn" uniqKey="Al Hooti S">SN Al-Hooti</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jasari, A" uniqKey="Al Jasari A">A Al-Jasari</name></author><author><name sortKey="Almazroa, Ma" uniqKey="Almazroa M">MA AlMazroa</name></author><author><name sortKey="Alqasmi, Am" uniqKey="Alqasmi A">AM AlQasmi</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, Ao" uniqKey="Musaiger A">AO Musaiger</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, Ao" uniqKey="Musaiger A">AO Musaiger</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Hazzaa, Hm" uniqKey="Al Hazzaa H">HM Al-Hazzaa</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, Ao" uniqKey="Musaiger A">AO Musaiger</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Roomi, Ka" uniqKey="Al Roomi K">KA Al-Roomi</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, Ao" uniqKey="Musaiger A">AO Musaiger</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Hazzaa, Hm" uniqKey="Al Hazzaa H">HM Al-Hazzaa</name></author><author><name sortKey="Takruri, Hr" uniqKey="Takruri H">HR Takruri</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mokhatar, N" uniqKey="Mokhatar N">N Mokhatar</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, Ao" uniqKey="Musaiger A">AO Musaiger</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Mannai, M" uniqKey="Al Mannai M">M Al-Mannai</name></author><author><name sortKey="Tayyem, R" uniqKey="Tayyem R">R Tayyem</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Lalla, O" uniqKey="Al Lalla O">O Al-Lalla</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ali, Ey" uniqKey="Ali E">EY Ali</name></author><author><name sortKey="Kalam, F" uniqKey="Kalam F">F Kalam</name></author><author><name sortKey="Benhamed, Mm" uniqKey="Benhamed M">MM Benhamed</name></author><author><name sortKey="Saghir, S" uniqKey="Saghir S">S Saghir</name></author><author><name sortKey="Halahleh, I" uniqKey="Halahleh I">I Halahleh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Djoudi, Z" uniqKey="Djoudi Z">Z Djoudi</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Musaiger, A" uniqKey="Musaiger A">A Musaiger</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Mannai, M" uniqKey="Al Mannai M">M Al-Mannai</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Lalla, O" uniqKey="Al Lalla O">O Al-Lalla</name></author><author><name sortKey="Saghir, S" uniqKey="Saghir S">S Saghir</name></author><author><name sortKey="Halahleh, I" uniqKey="Halahleh I">I Halahleh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Benhamed, M" uniqKey="Benhamed M">M Benhamed</name></author><author><name sortKey="Kalam, F" uniqKey="Kalam F">F Kalam</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ali, E" uniqKey="Ali E">E Ali</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Ng, Sw" uniqKey="Ng S">SW Ng</name></author><author><name sortKey="Zaghloul, S" uniqKey="Zaghloul S">S Zaghloul</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ali, H" uniqKey="Ali H">H Ali</name></author><author><name sortKey="Harrison, G" uniqKey="Harrison G">G Harrison</name></author><author><name sortKey="Popkin, Bm" uniqKey="Popkin B">BM Popkin</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Rahim, Hfa" uniqKey="Rahim H">HFA Rahim</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sibai, A" uniqKey="Sibai A">A Sibai</name></author><author><name sortKey="Khader, Y" uniqKey="Khader Y">Y Khader</name></author><author><name sortKey="Hwalla, N" uniqKey="Hwalla N">N Hwalla</name></author><author><name sortKey="Fadhil, I" uniqKey="Fadhil I">I Fadhil</name></author><author><name sortKey="Alsiyabi, H" uniqKey="Alsiyabi H">H Alsiyabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mataria, A" uniqKey="Mataria A">A Mataria</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mendis, S" uniqKey="Mendis S">S Mendis</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mokdad, Ah" uniqKey="Mokdad A">AH Mokdad</name></author><author><name sortKey="Husseini, A" uniqKey="Husseini A">A Husseini</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Shaheen, Fa" uniqKey="Shaheen F">FA Shaheen</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Khader, Aa" uniqKey="Al Khader A">AA Al-Khader</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sawalha, Af" uniqKey="Sawalha A">AF Sawalha</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sawalha, Af" uniqKey="Sawalha A">AF Sawalha</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sawalha, Af" uniqKey="Sawalha A">AF Sawalha</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Yu, Qh" uniqKey="Yu Q">QH Yu</name></author><author><name sortKey="Zhang, Yw" uniqKey="Zhang Y">YW Zhang</name></author><author><name sortKey="Li, Yz" uniqKey="Li Y">YZ Li</name></author><author><name sortKey="Bai, Sp" uniqKey="Bai S">SP Bai</name></author><author><name sortKey="Xiao, Fx" uniqKey="Xiao F">FX Xiao</name></author><author><name sortKey="Li, Qh" uniqKey="Li Q">QH Li</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Awang, R" uniqKey="Awang R">R Awang</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zyoud, Sh" uniqKey="Zyoud S">SH Zyoud</name></author><author><name sortKey="Al Jabi, Sw" uniqKey="Al Jabi S">SW Al-Jabi</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sweileh, Wm" uniqKey="Sweileh W">WM Sweileh</name></author><author><name sortKey="Awang, R" uniqKey="Awang R">R Awang</name></author></analytic></biblStruct></listBibl></div1></back></TEI><pmc article-type="research-article"><pmc-dir>properties open_access</pmc-dir>
<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Springerplus</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Springerplus</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>SpringerPlus</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2193-1801</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Springer International Publishing</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Cham</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">25674458</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4320167</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1484</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/2193-1801-3-718</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Bibliometric analysis of nutrition and dietetics research activity in Arab countries using ISI Web of Science database</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>Waleed M</given-names></name><address><email>waleedsweileh@yahoo.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>Samah W</given-names></name><address><email>samahjabi@yahoo.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sawalha</surname><given-names>Ansam F</given-names></name><address><email>ansam@najah.edu</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>Sa’ed H</given-names></name><address><email>saedzyoud@yahoo.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2"></xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label></label>Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label></label>Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>10</day><month>12</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>10</day><month>12</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><elocation-id>718</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>2</day><month>8</month><year>2014</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>1</day><month>12</month><year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© Sweileh et al.; licensee Springer. 2014</copyright-statement><license license-type="open-access"><license-p>This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="Abs1"><p>Reducing nutrition-related health problems in Arab countries requires an understanding of the performance of Arab countries in the field of nutrition and dietetics research. Assessment of research activity from a particular country or region could be achieved through bibliometric analysis. This study was carried out to investigate research activity in “nutrition and dietetics” in Arab countries. Original and review articles published from Arab countries in “nutrition and dietetics” Web of Science category up until 2012 were retrieved and analyzed using the ISI Web of Science database. The total number of documents published in “nutrition and dietetics” category from Arab countries was 2062. This constitutes 1% of worldwide research activity in the field. Annual research productivity showed a significant increase after 2005. Approximately 60% of published documents originated from three Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. However, Kuwait has the highest research productivity per million inhabitants. Main research areas of published documents were in “Food Science/Technology” and “Chemistry” which constituted 75% of published documents compared with 25% for worldwide documents in nutrition and dietetics. A total of 329 (15.96%) nutrition - related diabetes or obesity or cancer documents were published from Arab countries compared with 21% for worldwide published documents. Interest in nutrition and dietetics research is relatively recent in Arab countries. Focus of nutrition research is mainly toward food technology and chemistry with lesser activity toward nutrition-related health research. International cooperation in nutrition research will definitely help Arab researchers in implementing nutrition research that will lead to better national policies regarding nutrition.</p><sec><title>Electronic supplementary material</title><p>The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-718) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Arab world</kwd><kwd>Nutrition</kwd><kwd>Dietetics</kwd><kwd>Bibliometric analysis</kwd><kwd>ISI</kwd><kwd>Web of Science</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© The Author(s) 2014</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1"><title>Introduction</title><p>According to the World Health Organization, micronutrient deficiencies and underweight problems are common in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR); (WHO/EMRO <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">2012</xref>). On the other hand, overweight and obesity have reached alarming limits in most of the countries in EMR (Musaiger <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">2011</xref>). Furthermore, prevalent health conditions in Arab countries such as diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular diseases have been linked to nutritional habits in the EMR (Musaiger <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">2011</xref>). Reducing nutrition-related health problems in Arab countries requires an understanding of the performance of Arab countries in the field of nutrition and dietetics research. Assessment of research activity from a particular country or region could be achieved through bibliometric analysis (Bramness et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">2014</xref>; Zyoud et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">2014c</xref>). Bibliometrics Analysis of research output from a particular country is an image of its research activity and its current economic, developmental and health status (De Battisti and Salini <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">2013</xref>). No bibliometric studies have carried out to assess research activity in the field of nutrition and dietetics from any Arab country or Arab region. Internationally, few studies in this regard were published. For example, a bibliometric analysis of nutrition literature of Bangladesh showed that a total of 636 articles were published in 100 local and foreign journals with a rapid growth of nutrition literature from 1987 onwards (Ahmed and Rahman <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">2008</xref>). Another study from China showed that the number of Chinese literature on clinical nutrition had increased steadily from 1 paper in 1974 to 1980 papers in 2011 and that clinical nutrition has become one of the hot research topics in China in recent years, although the appropriate and reasonable use of clinical nutrition remain challenging (Yu et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR29">2013</xref>) Of course, research activity and capacity of a particular country depends on several factors including the national income and the size of population. In the case of Arab countries with approximately 400 million population and huge resources, excellence in research is a must. According to Arab League, there are 22 Arab countries and territories with varying degrees of income, population size, food industry and agricultural capacities. Arab countries, with approximately 400 million people, share similar language, culture, religion and historical background. Living standards, medical education, health services, political reform and awareness have become evident in most Arab countries. This should have been accompanied by increase in scientific research output. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the research activity in nutrition and dietetics in Arab countries using bibliometric approach. The results of the study will provide baseline data on the quantity and quality of research in nutrition and dietetics category and will help direct research in this field in the future.</p></sec><sec id="Sec2"><title>Methodology</title><p>Data used in this study were extracted from ISI Web of Science (WoS) in which various scientific disciplines are being grouped into various categories based on the field of interest of journals indexed in ISI WoS. For the purpose of this study, the category chosen for analysis was “nutrition and dietetics”. Web of Science is easy to use and has a simple and advanced search tools. Results of advanced search analysis can be copied and transferred to Microsoft excel for analysis at any point during analysis. Detailed citation analysis of the results of the advanced search can also be easily obtained.</p><p>In this study, WoS was used rather than PubMed database. A comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various databases including WoS, PubMed, and Scopus was presented by Falagas et al (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">2008</xref>). In contrast to PubMed, WoS covers most scientific publication and not only the medical and biomedical publication as in the case of PubMed. Furthermore, WoS covers the oldest publications and its records go back to 1900. A major disadvantage of PubMed is the fact that it does not provide citation analysis and therefore does not allow for qualitative analysis of published literature (Falagas et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">2008</xref>). Furthermore, although nutrition is a medical subject, research about nutrition could have been carried out and published in non-medical journals which make PubMed less suitable for this purpose than WoS. In this study, we used ISI WoS rather than Scopus for two main reasons. First of all, no category research is available through Scopus. In contrast, the ISI WoS has a special function in the advanced search that allows investigator to screen for all published articles under the category “nutrition and dietetics”. This is a major advantage of ISI WoS versus Scopus when doing bibliometric analysis of published articles in a special category or field. Second, it is important to note that ISI WoS includes highly citable and influential journals. Such published articles are the ones that affect the practice of nutritional science in the world.</p><p>In this study, 21 Arab countries were entered into advanced search engine in WoS followed by “nutrition and dietetics” as WoS category. Palestine was excluded from search keys because the WoS database does list Palestine as an independent state. The results were refined and limited to original research articles and review articles. The time frame for the result was up to year 2012.</p><sec id="Sec3"><title>Indices of research productivity</title><p>Data were presented as rank order using the standard competition ranking (SCR). Only the 10 top ranked were taken into consideration. The <italic>h</italic>-index for data was also presented. The <italic>h</italic>-index is a country's number of articles (<italic>h</italic>) that have received at least <italic>h</italic> citations (Hirsch <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">2005</xref>). Research activity was adjusted for Arab countries based on population size retrieved from the online databases of the World Bank (World Bank Group <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">2013</xref>). Scientific output was evaluated based on a methodology developed and used in other bibliometric studies (Sweileh et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">2014b</xref>; Zyoud et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">2014a</xref>; Zyoud et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">2014b</xref>; Zyoud et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">2014c</xref>). The collected data were used to generate the following information: (a) total and trends of contributions to research about nutrition and dietetics “during all previous years up to the set date of data analysis (December 31, 2012); (b) Arab countries research productivity and collaboration patterns; (c) journals in which Arab world researchers published; and (d) the citations received by the publications.</p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec4"><title>Results</title><p>The total number of documents retrieved for worldwide research activity was 195,011. This number represents the global research productivity in the category of Nutrition & Dietetics up to year 2012. The worldwide annual research productivity in nutrition and dietetics showed a significant increase after mid 1970s and reached a maximum annual output of 10,000 published documents in 2012. The leading countries in nutrition and dietetics research were United States of America (USA) (62732; 32.17%) followed by England (13801; 7.08%) and Japan (10579; 5.43%). Worldwide, Egypt and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) ranked 38<sup>th</sup> and 53<sup>rd</sup> respectively. More than 94% of worldwide nutrition and dietetics documents were written in English and less than 6% were written by 12 other languages mainly French and German languages. Approximately one forth of worldwide published nutrition and dietetics documents were in the research areas of food science/technology and chemistry. Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref> shows top 10 research areas of worldwide published nutrition and dietetics. Approximately 10% of worldwide research in nutrition and dietetics was published in <italic>Journal of Nutrition</italic>. Table <xref rid="Tab2" ref-type="table">2</xref> shows the top 10 journals in which worldwide nutrition and dietetics research documents were published. The most productive institutions of nutrition and dietetics research were “Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)” in France; Harvard University and University of Minnesota in United States of America with a total of 2429, 2367, 2029 documents respectively.<table-wrap id="Tab1"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p><bold>Research areas of worldwide published documents in nutrition and dietetics category</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="center">SCR</th><th>Research area</th><th align="center">Number of documents N = 195,011 (%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><bold>1</bold><sup><bold>st</bold></sup></td><td>Food Science Technology</td><td align="center">32472 (16.65)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>2</bold><sup><bold>nd</bold></sup></td><td>Chemistry</td><td align="center">19871 (10.19)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>3</bold><sup><bold>rd</bold></sup></td><td>Endocrinology Metabolism</td><td align="center">15887 (8.15)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>4</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Biochemistry Molecular Biology</td><td align="center">10657 (5.47)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>5</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Pediatrics</td><td align="center">6354 (3.26)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>6</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Agriculture</td><td align="center">6167 (3.16)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>7</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Gastroenterology Hepatology</td><td align="center">5891 (3.02)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>8</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Pharmacology Pharmacy</td><td align="center">3353 (1.72)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>9</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Psychology</td><td align="center">2902 (1.49)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Psychiatry</td><td align="center">2871 (1.47)</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><italic>Abbreviations:</italic> SCR = Standard Competition Ranking.</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="Tab2"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p><bold>Top 10 journals of worldwide published documents in nutrition and dietetics category</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="center">SCR</th><th><bold><italic>Journal</italic></bold></th><th align="center">Number of documents N = (%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><bold>1</bold><sup><bold>st</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Journal of Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">19054 (9.77)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>2</bold><sup><bold>nd</bold></sup></td><td><italic>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">15130 (7.76)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>3</bold><sup><bold>rd</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Food Chemistry</italic></td><td align="center">13151 (6.74)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>4</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>British Journal of Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">9138 (4.69)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>5</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Lipids</italic></td><td align="center">6769 (3.47)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>6</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Journal of the American Dietetic Association</italic></td><td align="center">6555 (3.36)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>7</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>International Journal of Obesity</italic></td><td align="center">5855 (3.00)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>8</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Nutrition Reviews</italic></td><td align="center">5802 (2.98)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>9</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">5795 (2.97)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>European Journal of Clinical Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">4443 (2.28)</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p><p>A total of 2062 documents were retrieved for Arab countries which represents 1.0% of the worldwide research productivity. Research activity in nutrition and dietetics from Arab countries remained low and fluctuating all through years until year 2005 and showed a significant increase after that and reached a maximum annual output of 160 published documents in 2012. When retrieved data was analyzed by country, Egypt (742; 35.98%) had the highest quantity of documents followed by KSA (250; 12.12%) and Tunisia (238; 11.54%). Approximately 60% of nutrition and dietetics documents from Arab countries came from three Arab countries, particularly Egypt, KSA, and Tunisia (Table <xref rid="Tab3" ref-type="table">3</xref>). Standardization of research activity using number of population showed that Kuwait (48.31 documents per million inhabitants) was top productive Arab country followed distantly by Lebanon (26.70 documents per million inhabitants) and Bahrain (23.07 documents per one million inhabitants respectively) (Table <xref rid="Tab3" ref-type="table">3</xref>). Of the 2062 documents, 2006 (97.3%) were written in English language while the remaining documents were published in German and French language. Approximately 75% of published nutrition and dietetics documents from Arab countries were in the research areas of food science/technology and chemistry. Top 10 research areas of nutrition and dietetics research from Arab countries are shown in Table <xref rid="Tab4" ref-type="table">4</xref>. Analysis of research areas showed that nutrition-related health research areas such as endocrinology/metabolism, cardiovascular and oncology constituted less than 9% of nutrition and dietetics research activity. A total of 329 (15.96%) nutrition-related diabetes or obesity or cancer documents were published from Arab countries. Noticeable increase in nutrition-related research in these three fields was observed only recently, particularly after year 2008. Countries whose researchers made the most collaboration with investigators in the Arab world include the United States of America (USA); (196; 9.51%) followed by France (188; 9.12%) and England (91; 4.41%).<table-wrap id="Tab3"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p><bold>Contribution of each Arab country to 2062 published nutrition and dietetics documents</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Country</th><th align="center">Number of documents N = 2062 (%)<sup>a</sup></th><th align="center">Number of documents per million inhabitants</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Egypt</td><td align="center">742 (35.98)</td><td align="center">9.19</td></tr><tr><td>KSA</td><td align="center">250 (12.12)</td><td align="center">8.83</td></tr><tr><td>Tunisia</td><td align="center">238 (11.54)</td><td align="center">22.07</td></tr><tr><td>Kuwait</td><td align="center">157 (7.61)</td><td align="center">48.31</td></tr><tr><td>Sudan</td><td align="center">126 (6.11)</td><td align="center">3.38</td></tr><tr><td>Morocco</td><td align="center">122 (5.92)</td><td align="center">3.75</td></tr><tr><td>Lebanon</td><td align="center">118 (5.72)</td><td align="center">26.70</td></tr><tr><td>UAE</td><td align="center">85 (4.12)</td><td align="center">9.24</td></tr><tr><td>Jordan</td><td align="center">78 (3.78)</td><td align="center">12.38</td></tr><tr><td>Algeria</td><td align="center">69 (3.35)</td><td align="center">1.79</td></tr><tr><td>Bahrain</td><td align="center">30 (1.46)</td><td align="center">23.07</td></tr><tr><td>Iraq</td><td align="center">29 (1.41)</td><td align="center">0.89</td></tr><tr><td>Oman</td><td align="center">28 (1.36)</td><td align="center">8.48</td></tr><tr><td>Qatar</td><td align="center">22 (1.07)</td><td align="center">10.7</td></tr><tr><td>Syria</td><td align="center">17 (0.82)</td><td align="center">0.76</td></tr><tr><td>Libya</td><td align="center">16 (0.78)</td><td align="center">2.58</td></tr><tr><td>Yemen</td><td align="center">17 (0.82)</td><td align="center">0.71</td></tr><tr><td>Mauritania</td><td align="center">5 (0.24)</td><td align="center">1.32</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><sup>a</sup>total exceeds 100% because of overlap in some documents among more than one Arab country.</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="Tab4"><label>Table 4</label><caption><p><bold>Research areas of published documents from Arab countries in nutrition and dietetics category</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="center">SCR</th><th>Research area</th><th align="center">Number of documents N = 2062 (%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><bold>1</bold><sup><bold>st</bold></sup></td><td>Food Science Technology</td><td align="center">908 (44.04)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>2</bold><sup><bold>nd</bold></sup></td><td>Chemistry</td><td align="center">629 (30.50)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>3</bold><sup><bold>rd</bold></sup></td><td>Endocrinology Metabolism</td><td align="center">132 (6.40)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>4</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Plant Sciences</td><td align="center">62 (3.01)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>5</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Pediatrics</td><td align="center">58 (2.81)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>6</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Gastroenterology Hepatology</td><td align="center">52 (2.52)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>7</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Pharmacology Pharmacy</td><td align="center">49 (2.38)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>8</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Public Environmental Occupational Health</td><td align="center">42 (2.04)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>9</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Biochemistry Molecular Biology</td><td align="center">32 (1.55)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Agriculture</td><td align="center">25 (1.21)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Developmental Biology</td><td align="center">25 (1.21)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Oncology</td><td align="center">25 (1.21)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Reproductive Biology</td><td align="center">25 (1.21)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td>Zoology</td><td align="center">25 (1.21)</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><italic>Abbreviations:</italic> SCR = Standard Competition Ranking.</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p><p>Table <xref rid="Tab5" ref-type="table">5</xref> lists top 10 journals in which nutrition and dietetics research documents from Arab countries were published. Approximately 27% of documents in nutrition and dietetics category published from Arab countries were published in <italic>Food Chemistry</italic> Journal. The most productive institution in Arab country was National research Center in Cairo (212; 10.28%) followed by King Saud University (145; 7.03%) and University of Alexandria (132; 6.4%).<table-wrap id="Tab5"><label>Table 5</label><caption><p><bold>Top 10 journals of published documents from Arab countries in nutrition and dietetics category</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="center">SCR</th><th><bold><italic>Journal</italic></bold></th><th align="center">Number of documents N = (%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><bold>1</bold><sup><bold>st</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Food Chemistry</italic></td><td align="center">564 (27.35)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>2</bold><sup><bold>nd</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Zeitschrift fur Ernahrungswissenschaft (European Journal of Nutrition)</italic></td><td align="center">105 (5.09)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>3</bold><sup><bold>rd</bold></sup></td><td><italic>International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">88 (4.27)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>4</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Ecology of Food and Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">86 (4.17)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>5</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Nutrition Reports International</italic></td><td align="center">79 (3.83)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>6</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Nutrition Research</italic></td><td align="center">73 (3.54)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>7</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Plant Foods for Human Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">62 (3.01)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>8</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Nutrition</italic></td><td align="center">61 (2.96)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>9</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism</italic></td><td align="center">60 (2.91)</td></tr><tr><td align="center"><bold>10</bold><sup><bold>th</bold></sup></td><td><italic>Acta Alimentaria</italic></td><td align="center">59 (2.86)</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><italic>Abbreviations:</italic> SCR = Standard Competition Ranking.</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p><p>Table <xref rid="Tab6" ref-type="table">6</xref> shows the citation analysis of documents from Arab and neighboring non-Arab countries in nutrition and dietetics category. The total citations for documents published from the Arab countries, at the time of data analysis (June 28<sup>th</sup>, 2014), was higher than that for Israel, or Turkey or Iran. However, when comparison was made at country level, Israel and Turkey published more documents than Egypt or KSA or Tunisia when considered separately. The average citation per documents was lower for those published from Arab countries when considered as a group or when considered separately than those published from Israel or Turkey. Finally, the h-index for documents from Arab countries was lower than that from Israel or Turkey but higher than that from Iran.<table-wrap id="Tab6"><label>Table 6</label><caption><p><bold>Research output in nutrition and dietetics from Arab countries compared with that from Turkey, Iran and Israel</bold></p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Data/Country</th><th align="center">Arab countries</th><th align="center">Egypt</th><th align="center">KSA</th><th align="center">Tunisia</th><th align="center">Turkey</th><th align="center">Israel</th><th align="center">Iran</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><bold>Number of population in millions</bold></td><td align="center">400</td><td align="center">90</td><td align="center">30</td><td align="center">11</td><td align="center">60</td><td align="center">8</td><td align="center">80</td></tr><tr><td><bold>Number of published research articles and review articles</bold></td><td align="center">2062</td><td align="center">742</td><td align="center">250</td><td align="center">238</td><td align="center">1311</td><td align="center">1348</td><td align="center">664</td></tr><tr><td><bold>Total number of citations</bold></td><td align="center">22885</td><td align="center">7218</td><td align="center">2879</td><td align="center">3575</td><td align="center">21274</td><td align="center">29175</td><td align="center">9782</td></tr><tr><td><bold>Average citation per document</bold></td><td align="center">11.1</td><td align="center">9.5</td><td align="center">10.4</td><td align="center">13.34</td><td align="center">16.23</td><td align="center">21.64</td><td align="center">14.73</td></tr><tr><td><bold><italic>h</italic></bold><bold>-index</bold></td><td align="center">54</td><td align="center">37</td><td align="center">24</td><td align="center">30</td><td align="center">57</td><td align="center">73</td><td align="center">46</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="Sec5"><title>Discussion</title><p>Nutrition research is important for human development as well as for improving national health status. No doubt that research regarding nutrition and dietetics is highly needed in Arab countries in order to have baseline data to be used for implementation of nutrition programs directed to solve nutrition-related issues. In our study, a total of 2062 original research articles and reviews related to nutrition and dietetics were retrieved from Arab countries. The actual number of documents might be higher than this given that some journals in which Arab researchers have published about nutrition were not indexed in WoS. For example, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal is one of the regional journals in the field of public health in which many Arab researchers had published in the field of nutrition; however, documents published in this journal were not counted because it is not indexed in ISI Web of Science. Despite this limitation, our study does give a clear picture and a very close approximation of the quantity, quality, citation analysis, and international collaboration activity of documents in the field of nutrition and dietetics published from Arab countries.</p><p>Our results indicated that Kuwait ranked first in research productivity regarding nutrition research measured per million inhabitants. Nutrition-related problems in Kuwait and other gulf countries are due to nutritional transition and overconsumption of food (Musaiger <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">2011</xref>; Hubail and Culligan <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">2012</xref>). A study in seven Arab countries found that, Kuwaiti adolescents had the highest prevalence of obesity (Musaiger et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">2012b</xref>). The findings that Bahrain ranked third in number of documents per million was also expected since the prevalence rates for obesity and diabetes mellitus in Bahrain are higher than the global average (Hubail and Culligan <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">2012</xref>). Obesity and diabetes mellitus have reached alarming limits in Arab Gulf countries and no wonder that researchers from these countries had high research activity regarding nutrition. Furthermore, the relatively good economy of Arab gulf countries participated in pushing medical research activity forward.</p><p>Our results showed that interest of Arab researchers in nutrition research showed a dramatic increase only in the last decade. This might be due to alarming epidemiological studies published in late 1990s regarding diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic kidney diseases which might be linked to nutrition (El Mugamer et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">1995</xref>; Ibrahim et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">1995</xref>; Musaiger and Al-Roomi <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">1997</xref>; Shaheen and Al-Khader <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">2005</xref>). Arab countries have surpassed Israel, Turkey and Iran in nutrition research activity. However, the quality, as measured by citation analysis, of research from Arab countries was not higher than that produced by Israel or Turkey. This means that although attention to nutrition research is growing, the type and quality of publications is not as those from Israel or Turkey.</p><p>Research areas of published documents in the field of nutrition and dietetics from Arab countries were mainly in “Food Science/Technology and Chemistry”. Similar top research areas were found with worldwide published documents in the field of nutrition and dietetics. However, these two research areas constituted approximately 75% of the research area of published nutrition documents from Arab countries compared with approximately 27% for these two research areas for worldwide published nutrition documents. This difference is mainly due to lack of information on chemical composition of local foods and herbs commonly consumed and used in Arab countries. Furthermore, no doubt that processed food technology is new to Arab countries and therefore research in this area is appealing to many of those who are in the field of nutrition, public health, toxicology and industry.</p><p>Our study showed that the number of nutrition documents related to diabetes mellitus, or cancer or obesity published from Arab countries was 16% compared with 21% for worldwide nutrition-related diabetes mellitus, pr cancer or obesity. Despite the fact that prevalence rates of diabetes mellitus and obesity have reached alarming limits in some Arab countries, nutrition- related research in these health topics was lagging behind in Arab countries. Recent studies indicated that non-communicable diseases have largely replaced infectious diseases in most Arab countries as a leading cause of death (Mokdad et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">2014</xref>; Rahim et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">2014</xref>). The increased burden of non-communicable diseases in Arab countries could be attributed to several factors. No doubt that modernization, tobacco smoking, health awareness, economic and financial pressuring factors, stress of the unstable and violent political conditions, and inadequate physical activity are among other important contributing factors to the rise of non-communicable diseases in Arab countries (Alwan <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">1994</xref>; Akl et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2011</xref>; Bull and Dvorak <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR5">2013</xref>; Maziak et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">2013</xref>; Mokdad et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">2014</xref>). However, nutritional factors and transition in nutritional habits maybe the major contributing factor for the rise in non-communicable diseases in Arab countries. Recently published review articles by Musaiger et al. have described the contribution of current nutritional problems among Arabs and its paramount importance and link to several common non-communicable diseases in Arab countries (Musaiger <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">2011</xref>; Musaiger and Al-Hazzaa <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">2012</xref>). The authors concluded that intervention programs to prevent non-communicable diseases are urgently needed. Such programs need to focus on promoting healthy diet and healthy eating practices in addition to promoting changes in life style pertaining to physical activity (Musaiger and Al-Hazzaa <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">2012</xref>; Musaiger et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">2013</xref>). Similar studies linking nutritional habits and patterns with the rise in non-communicable diseases in Arab countries have been published and demanded urgent national monitoring of factors pertaining to troubling trends of non-communicable diseases in Arab communities (Ng et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">2011</xref>; Musaiger et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">2012a</xref>). Other published article have described the role of nutrition and Arab genetics in emergence of chronic diseases in Middle East and North Africa region (Fahed et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">2012</xref>).</p><p>The results of our study showed that journals in the field of chemistry, food science and general nutrition have a good share from nutrition and dietetics publications from Arab countries. It is noteworthy that top 10 journals for publications in nutrition and dietetics from Arab countries did not include any journal in the field of clinical nutrition. In contrast, the worldwide list of top 10 journals for nutrition and dietetics included two clinical nutrition journals, particularly, the <italic>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</italic> and the <italic>European Journal of Clinical Nutrition</italic>. The difference in the top 10 list journals between Arabs and worldwide reflects differences in research areas and research interest. It was obvious that health and clinically – related journals do not have big share of publications from Arab countries.</p><p>To the best of author’s knowledge, this is the first bibliometric study in the field of nutrition and dietetics from Arab countries and does establish a baseline data for future analysis and comparison. Our study is not without limitations, most of which are the same as those of studies performed in other biomedical fields (Sweileh et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">2014a</xref>; Sweileh et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">2014c</xref>,b). First of all, our study is limited by the fact that articles published in journals outside the WoS database were not included. Another limitation is that some publications from Palestine may be affiliated with Israel. Therefore, research activities from Israel were actually from Palestine.</p></sec><sec id="Sec6"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Our study showed that interest in nutrition and dietetics research is relatively recent in Arab countries. Focus of nutrition research in Arab countries is mainly toward food technology and chemistry with lesser activity toward nutrition-related health research. Arab researchers, particularly in countries with high prevalence rates of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cancer need to invest in more nutrition research in these fields. International cooperation in nutrition research will definitely help Arab researchers in implementing nutrition research that will lead to better national policies regarding nutrition.</p></sec></body><back><app-group><app id="App1"><sec id="Sec7"><title>Authors’ original submitted files for images</title><p>Below are the links to the authors’ original submitted files for images.<media position="anchor" xlink:href="40064_2014_1484_MOESM1_ESM.docx" id="MOESM1"><caption><p>Authors’ original file for figure 1</p></caption></media><media position="anchor" xlink:href="40064_2014_1484_MOESM2_ESM.docx" id="MOESM2"><caption><p>Authors’ original file for figure 2</p></caption></media><media position="anchor" xlink:href="40064_2014_1484_MOESM3_ESM.docx" id="MOESM3"><caption><p>Authors’ original file for figure 3</p></caption></media></p></sec></app></app-group><glossary><title>Abbreviations</title><def-list><def-item><term>EMR</term><def><p>Eastern Mediterranean Region</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>ISI</term><def><p>Institute for Scientific Information</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>WoS</term><def><p>Web of Science</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>KSA</term><def><p>Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>UAE</term><def><p>United Arab Emirates</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>USA</term><def><p>United States of America</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>JCR</term><def><p>Journal citation report</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>SCR</term><def><p>Standard competition ranking</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>IFs</term><def><p>Impact factors.</p></def></def-item></def-list></glossary><fn-group><fn><p><bold>Competing interests</bold></p><p>The authors declare that they have no competing interests.</p></fn><fn><p><bold>Authors’ contributions</bold></p><p>All authors were involved in drafting the article, and all authors approved the final version to be submitted for publication. WS and SZ contributed to idea and design while SA, and AS contributed to data analysis, critical thinking and manuscript writing and submission.</p></fn></fn-group><ack><title>Acknowledgement</title><p>The authors would like to express many thanks and gratitude to An-Najah University for help in conducting this study.</p></ack><ref-list id="Bib1"><title>References</title><ref id="CR1"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ahmed</surname><given-names>SMZ</given-names></name><name><surname>Rahman</surname><given-names>MA</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Nutrition literature of Bangladesh: a bibliometric study</article-title><source>Malaysian J Lib Info Sci</source><year>2008</year><volume>13</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>35</fpage><lpage>43</lpage></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR2"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Akl</surname><given-names>EA</given-names></name><name><surname>Gunukula</surname><given-names>SK</given-names></name><name><surname>Aleem</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Obeid</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name><surname>Jaoude</surname><given-names>PA</given-names></name><name><surname>Honeine</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name><surname>Irani</surname><given-names>J</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>The prevalence of waterpipe tobacco smoking among the general and specific populations: a systematic review</article-title><source>BMC public health</source><year>2011</year><volume>11</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>244</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1471-2458-11-244</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">21504559</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR3"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Alwan</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Chronic diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an overview</article-title><source>Emir J Food Agric</source><year>1994</year><volume>6</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>6</fpage><lpage>19</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9755/ejfa.v6i1.5327</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR4"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Bramness</surname><given-names>JG</given-names></name><name><surname>Henriksen</surname><given-names>B</given-names></name><name><surname>Person</surname><given-names>O</given-names></name><name><surname>Mann</surname><given-names>K</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>A bibliometric analysis of European versus USA research in the field of addiction. Research on alcohol, narcotics, prescription drug abuse, tobacco and steroids 2001-2011</article-title><source>Eur Addict Res</source><year>2014</year><volume>20</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>16</fpage><lpage>22</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1159/000348260</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23921359</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR5"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Bull</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name><name><surname>Dvorak</surname><given-names>J</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Tackling chronic disease through increased physical activity in the Arab World and the Middle East: challenge and opportunity</article-title><source>Br J Sports Med</source><year>2013</year><volume>47</volume><issue>10</issue><fpage>600</fpage><lpage>602</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1136/bjsports-2012-092109</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23624465</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR6"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>De Battisti</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name><name><surname>Salini</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Robust analysis of bibliometric data</article-title><source>Stat Methods Appl</source><year>2013</year><volume>22</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>269</fpage><lpage>283</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s10260-012-0217-0</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR7"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>El Mugamer</surname><given-names>I</given-names></name><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>ZA</given-names></name><name><surname>Hossain</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name><name><surname>Pugh</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Diabetes, obesity and hypertension in urban and rural people of bedouin origin in the United Arab Emirates</article-title><source>J Trop Med Hyg</source><year>1995</year><volume>98</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>407</fpage><lpage>415</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">8544223</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR8"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Fahed</surname><given-names>AC</given-names></name><name><surname>El-Hage-Sleiman</surname><given-names>A-KM</given-names></name><name><surname>Farhat</surname><given-names>TI</given-names></name><name><surname>Nemer</surname><given-names>GM</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Diet, genetics, and disease: A focus on the Middle East and North Africa region</article-title><source>J Nutr Metab</source><year>2012</year><volume>2012</volume><fpage>109037</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2012/109037</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22536488</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR9"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Falagas</surname><given-names>ME</given-names></name><name><surname>Pitsouni</surname><given-names>EI</given-names></name><name><surname>Malietzis</surname><given-names>GA</given-names></name><name><surname>Pappas</surname><given-names>G</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, web of science, and Google scholar: strengths and weaknesses</article-title><source>FASEB J</source><year>2008</year><volume>22</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>338</fpage><lpage>342</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1096/fj.07-9492LSF</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">17884971</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR10"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Hirsch</surname><given-names>JE</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output</article-title><source>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A</source><year>2005</year><volume>102</volume><issue>46</issue><fpage>16569</fpage><lpage>16572</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.0507655102</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">16275915</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR11"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Hubail</surname><given-names>AR</given-names></name><name><surname>Culligan</surname><given-names>KG</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Current prospectus on obesity in Bahrain and determination of percentage body fat range</article-title><source>Bahrain Med Bull</source><year>2012</year><volume>34</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>21</fpage><lpage>25</lpage></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR12"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ibrahim</surname><given-names>MM</given-names></name><name><surname>Rizk</surname><given-names>H</given-names></name><name><surname>Appel</surname><given-names>LJ</given-names></name><name><surname>El Aroussy</surname><given-names>W</given-names></name><name><surname>Helmy</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Sharaf</surname><given-names>Y</given-names></name><name><surname>Ashour</surname><given-names>Z</given-names></name><name><surname>Kandil</surname><given-names>H</given-names></name><name><surname>Roccella</surname><given-names>E</given-names></name><name><surname>Whelton</surname><given-names>PK</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in Egypt results from the Egyptian National Hypertension Project (NHP)</article-title><source>Hypertension</source><year>1995</year><volume>26</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>886</fpage><lpage>890</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1161/01.HYP.26.6.886</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7490144</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR13"><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Maziak</surname><given-names>W</given-names></name><name><surname>Nakkash</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name><surname>Bahelah</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name><surname>Husseini</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>Fanous</surname><given-names>N</given-names></name><name><surname>Eissenberg</surname><given-names>T</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Tobacco in the Arab world: old and new epidemics amidst policy paralysis</article-title><source>Health Policy Plan</source><year>2013</year></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR14"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Mokdad</surname><given-names>AH</given-names></name><name><surname>Jaber</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Aziz</surname><given-names>MIA</given-names></name><name><surname>AlBuhairan</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name><name><surname>AlGhaithi</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>AlHamad</surname><given-names>NM</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Hooti</surname><given-names>SN</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jasari</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>AlMazroa</surname><given-names>MA</given-names></name><name><surname>AlQasmi</surname><given-names>AM</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>The state of health in the Arab world, 1990–2010: an analysis of the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors</article-title><source>Lancet</source><year>2014</year><volume>383</volume><issue>9914</issue><fpage>309</fpage><lpage>320</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62189-3</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24452042</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR15"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Overweight and obesity in eastern mediterranean region: prevalence and possible causes</article-title><source>J Obes</source><year>2011</year><volume>2011</volume><issue>2011</issue><fpage>407237</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">21941635</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR16"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Hazzaa</surname><given-names>HM</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Prevalence and risk factors associated with nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean region</article-title><source>Int J Gen Med</source><year>2012</year><volume>5</volume><fpage>199</fpage><lpage>217</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2147/IJGM.S29663</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22399864</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR17"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Roomi</surname><given-names>KA</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among men and women in an Arab Gulf community</article-title><source>Nutr Health</source><year>1997</year><volume>11</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>149</fpage><lpage>157</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1177/026010609701100302</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9131699</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR18"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Hazzaa</surname><given-names>HM</given-names></name><name><surname>Takruri</surname><given-names>HR</given-names></name><name><surname>Mokhatar</surname><given-names>N</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Change in nutrition and lifestyle in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Health impact</article-title><source>J Nutr Metab</source><year>2012</year><volume>2012</volume><fpage>436762</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22720142</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR19"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Mannai</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name><name><surname>Tayyem</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Lalla</surname><given-names>O</given-names></name><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>EY</given-names></name><name><surname>Kalam</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name><name><surname>Benhamed</surname><given-names>MM</given-names></name><name><surname>Saghir</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Halahleh</surname><given-names>I</given-names></name><name><surname>Djoudi</surname><given-names>Z</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in seven Arab countries: a cross-cultural study</article-title><source>J Obes</source><year>2012</year><volume>2012</volume><fpage>981390</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2012/981390</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23029605</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR20"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Musaiger</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Mannai</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Lalla</surname><given-names>O</given-names></name><name><surname>Saghir</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Halahleh</surname><given-names>I</given-names></name><name><surname>Benhamed</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name><name><surname>Kalam</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>E</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Obesity among adolescents in five Arab countries; relative to gender and age</article-title><source>Nutr Hosp</source><year>2013</year><volume>28</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>1922</fpage><lpage>1925</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24506370</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR21"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ng</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Zaghloul</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>H</given-names></name><name><surname>Harrison</surname><given-names>G</given-names></name><name><surname>Popkin</surname><given-names>BM</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>The prevalence and trends of overweight, obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in the Arabian Gulf States</article-title><source>Obes Rev</source><year>2011</year><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00750.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20546144</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR22"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Rahim</surname><given-names>HFA</given-names></name><name><surname>Sibai</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>Khader</surname><given-names>Y</given-names></name><name><surname>Hwalla</surname><given-names>N</given-names></name><name><surname>Fadhil</surname><given-names>I</given-names></name><name><surname>Alsiyabi</surname><given-names>H</given-names></name><name><surname>Mataria</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name><name><surname>Mendis</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name><name><surname>Mokdad</surname><given-names>AH</given-names></name><name><surname>Husseini</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Non-communicable diseases in the Arab world</article-title><source>Lancet</source><year>2014</year><volume>383</volume><issue>9914</issue><fpage>356</fpage><lpage>367</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62383-1</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24452044</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR23"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Shaheen</surname><given-names>FA</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Khader</surname><given-names>AA</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Preventive strategies of renal failure in the Arab world</article-title><source>Kidney Int Suppl</source><year>2005</year><volume>68</volume><fpage>S37</fpage><lpage>S40</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.09807.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">16108969</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR24"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Sawalha</surname><given-names>AF</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: research activity in Arab countries</article-title><source>Multidiscip Respir Med</source><year>2014</year><volume>9</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>38</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/2049-6958-9-38</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25050176</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR25"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Sawalha</surname><given-names>AF</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Assessing urology and nephrology research activity in Arab countries using ISI web of science bibliometric database</article-title><source>BMC Res Notes</source><year>2014</year><volume>7</volume><fpage>258</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1756-0500-7-258</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24758477</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR26"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Sawalha</surname><given-names>AF</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Quantity and quality of obesity-related research in Arab countries: assessment and comparative analysis</article-title><source>Health Res Policy Syst</source><year>2014</year><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>33</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1478-4505-12-33</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25005130</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR27"><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><collab>WHO/EMRO</collab></person-group><source>Nutrition in the Eastern Mediterranean Region</source><year>2012</year></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR28"><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><collab>World Bank Group</collab></person-group><source>Countries and Economies 2012</source><year>2013</year></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR29"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Yu</surname><given-names>QH</given-names></name><name><surname>Zhang</surname><given-names>YW</given-names></name><name><surname>Li</surname><given-names>YZ</given-names></name><name><surname>Bai</surname><given-names>SP</given-names></name><name><surname>Xiao</surname><given-names>FX</given-names></name><name><surname>Li</surname><given-names>QH</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Bibliometric analysis of advances in clinical nutrition in Chinese Journals</article-title><source>Chinese J Clin Nutr</source><year>2013</year><volume>21</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>35</fpage><lpage>41</lpage></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR30"><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Worldwide research productivity of paracetamol (acetaminophen) poisoning: a bibliometric analysis (2003-2012)</article-title><source>Hum Exp Toxicol</source><year>2014</year></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR31"><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name><name><surname>Awang</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>A bibliometric analysis of research productivity of Malaysian publications in leading toxicology journals during a 10-year period (2003–2012)</article-title><source>Hum Exp Toxicol</source><year>2014</year></element-citation></ref><ref id="CR32"><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Zyoud</surname><given-names>SH</given-names></name><name><surname>Al-Jabi</surname><given-names>SW</given-names></name><name><surname>Sweileh</surname><given-names>WM</given-names></name><name><surname>Awang</surname><given-names>R</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>A bibliometric analysis of toxicology research productivity in Middle Eastern Arab countries during a 10-year period (2003-2012)</article-title><source>Health Res Policy Syst</source><year>2014</year><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>4</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1478-4505-12-4</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24443999</pub-id></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Wicri/Sante/explor/MaghrebDataLibMedV2/Data/Pmc/Corpus
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 000076 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Pmc/Corpus/biblio.hfd -nk 000076 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Wicri/Sante
|area= MaghrebDataLibMedV2
|flux= Pmc
|étape= Corpus
|type= RBID
|clé=
|texte=
}}
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.38. |  |