خلاصة:
This study aims to examine the research output in engineering by the Middle East countries. The data on engineering research by Middle East countries were collected from Web of Science. Collected data were analyzed with various tools such as Average Annual Growth Rate (AAGR), Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), Activity Index (AI), and Relative Specialization Index (RSI). The level of regional and international cooperation in the Middle East countries was also identified. Findings showed Iran has the highest overall performance in total documents, total citations, h-index, and highly cited papers, but most of the publications by Yemen were international cooperation. Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen in the field of petroleum engineering; Bahrain and Qatar in industrial engineering; Turkey in geological engineering; Syria in agricultural engineering; Lebanon in medical engineering; Israel in cell & tissue engineering; Iraq in civil engineering; Egypt in Chemical Engineering; and Jordan in Software Engineering have the highest RSI in their countries. Results show that Iran had the best performance in most of the indicators (quantitative indices) and Saudi Arabia has good performance in qualitative indices among Middle East countries.
ملخص الجهاز:
Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen in the field of petroleum engineering; Bahrain and Qatar in industrial engineering; Turkey in geological engineering; Syria in agricultural engineering; Lebanon in medical engineering; Israel in cell & tissue engineering; haq in civil engineering; Egypt in Chemical Engineering; and Jordan in Software Engineering have the highest RSI in their countries.
Numerous studies have been done in this subject, including but not limited to analysis of scholarly publications (Cañas-Guerrero, Mazarron, Pou-Merina, Calleja- Perucho & Suarez-Tejero, 2013), bibliometric analysis of engineering research among different countries (Elango, 2019a; Abuelma'atti, 2013) and the study of international cooperation (Tirgar, Sajjadi & Aghalari, 2019; Dhawan, Gupta, Singh & Rani, 2017).
For example, Fazeli Varzaneh, Bahmani & Ghaderi Azad (2018) examined the energy and fuel scientific productions of Middle East countries from 1998-2017, result showed that the UAE, Laq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman had the most specialization in this field, respectively.
These data include the scientific publication of Middle Eastern countries (Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, UAE, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria), during 2009-2018.
The average annual growth rate of the activity index According to table 3, kan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen in the field of petroleum engineering; Bahrain and Qatar in industrial engineering; Turkey in geological engineering; Syria in agricultural engineering; Lebanon in medical engineering; Israel in cell & tissue engineering; Iraq in civil engineering; Egypt in Chemical Engineering; and Jordan in Software Engineering have the best performance in their countries.