Nursing and midwifery research activity in Arab countries from 1950 to 2017

Table 2 Ten most active Arab countries in nursing and midwifery research field

Country	Frequency N = 2935	%	GDP per capita (^a1000)^a	Number of publications per GDP per capita	h-index of the publications	Number of publications with international authors	%	Number of publications in Q1 Journals	%
Jordan	1023	34.9	4.088	250.2	34	478	46.7	293	28.6
Saudi Arabia	615	21.0	20.29	30.3	25	363	59	142	23.1
Egypt	464	15.8	3.478	133.4	22	244	52.6	68	14.7
Lebanon	315	10.7	8.25	38.2	27	196	62.3	112	35.5
Oman	153	5.2	14.981	10.2	12	90	58.9	36	23.5
Iraq	137	4.7	4.61	29.7	17	83	60.9	10	7.3
Kuwait	136	4.6	27.359	5.0	27	50	37	31	22.8
United Arab Emirates	124	4.2	37.622	3.3	14	84	67.4	32	25.8
Qatar	118	4.0	59.324	2.0	15	79	67.1	41	34.7
Palestine	64	2.2	2.943	21.7	12	17	27.3	14	21.9

^aGross Domestic Product (at purchasing power parity) per capita obtained from World Bank [56]

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