- Proportion of national contribution and citation times for the most productive institutions in Arab countries from January 2017 to March 2023 (ranked descending by times cited).
| Rank | Institution names* | Organization types | Countries | Times cited | Publications per institution | Publication per country | % National contribution† | Citation impact‡ | H-index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King Saud University | Academic | Saudi Arabia | 169,433 | 11,973 | 44,288 | 27.03 | 14.15 | 119 |
| 2 | Cairo University | Academic | Egypt | 139,094 | 9,289 | 40,790 | 22.77 | 14.97 | 106 |
| 3 | King Abdulaziz University | Academic | Saudi Arabia | 136,934 | 7,479 | 44,288 | 16.89 | 18.31 | 117 |
| 4 | American University of Beirut | Academic | Lebanon | 104,920 | 3,681 | 7,240 | 50.84 | 28.50 | 99 |
| 5 | Mansoura University | Academic | Egypt | 83,875 | 4,448 | 40,790 | 10.90 | 18.86 | 85 |
| 6 | Ain Shams University | Academic | Egypt | 83,644 | 4,743 | 40,790 | 11.63 | 17.64 | 92 |
| 7 | Qatar Foundation | Nonprofit | Qatar | 70,901 | 2,839 | 7,646 | 37.13 | 24.97 | 95 |
| 8 | Alexandria University | Academic | Egypt | 56,258 | 4,192 | 40,790 | 10.28 | 13.42 | 69 |
| 9 | King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences | Academic | Saudi Arabia | 56,211 | 3,268 | 44,288 | 7.38 | 17.20 | 87 |
| 10 | Hamad Medical Corporation | Health | Qatar | 45,882 | 2,347 | 7,646 | 30.70 | 19.55 | 77 |
↵* Most productive institutions in the Arab world were ranked based on the total number of publications for the period between January 2017 and March 2023 and limited to the top 20.
↵† Number of publications per institution divided by the total number of publications from the same country.
↵‡ Citation impact is times cited divided by publications number from the same institution.