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Table 1 Ranking and contribution of Arab countries in research on COVID-19

From: The Arab region’s contribution to global COVID-19 research: Bibliometric and visualization analysis

Rank

Country

Number of publication

%

Population by milliun

GDP by billion

AI

AI Rank

1st

Saudi Arabia

2186

35.65

35

800

49.97

1st

2nd

Egypt

1281

20.89

100

350

4.48

6th

3rd

UAE

719

11.73

10

450

32.36

2nd

4th

Morocco

431

7.03

35

120

1.48

9th

5th

Jordan

430

7.01

10

45

1.94

8th

6th

Qatar

402

6.56

3

220

9.19

5th

7th

Iraq

357

5.82

40

250

1.25

11th

8th

Lebanon

347

5.66

7

55

15.62

3rd

9th

Tunisia

222

3.62

12

50

0.76

16

10th

Oman

205

3.34

5

80

0.92

12th

11th

Kuwait

203

3.31

4

180

14.89

4th

12th

Algeria

135

2.20

45

220

0.84

15th

13th

Bahrain

110

1.79

1.6

35

0.86

14th

14th

Sudan

101

1.65

40

80

0.42

17th

15th

Palestine

86

1.40

4.5

16

1.38

10th

15th

Yemen

86

1.40

30

40

3.87

7th

17th

LAJ

57

0.93

7

80

0.28

18th

18th

SAR

42

0.69

22

40

0.92

13th

19th

Somalia

14

0.23

14

1.1

0.03

20th

20th

Mauritania

10

0.16

4.5

8

0.04

19th

21st

Comoros

2

0.03

0.8

1.2

0.00

22nd

21st

Djibouti

2

0.03

0.9

3.5

0.02

21st

  1. Abriviations: AI adjustment index, GDP gross domestic product, LAJ Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, SAR Syrian Arab Republic, UAE United Arab Emirates
  2. The following formula was used to calculate an adjustment index (AI): AI = [Total number of publications for the country / GDP per capita of the country] × 1000, where GDP per capita is the country’s GDP divided by its population