- Top 10 target Arab medical research journals for researchers in Arab countries (ranked in descending order by number of publications, out of a total of 43 journals).
| Rank | Journal names | Publication sources | Total publications (n)* | Publications from Arab countries (n) | % Of publications from Arab countries† | Times cited (n) | JIF quartile | Journal IF‡ | 5 year IF | Citation impact§ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences | Saudi Arabia | 2,900 | 1,852 | 63.86 | 26,068 | Q2 | 4.05 | 4.25 | 8.99 |
| 2 | Current Pharmaceutical Design | United Arab Emirates | 2,671 | 237 | 8.87 | 27,484 | Q3 | 3.31 | 3.55 | 10.29 |
| 3 | Current Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 2,066 | 89 | 4.31 | 26,343 | Q2 | 4.74 | 5.05 | 12.75 |
| 4 | Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 1,320 | 179 | 13.56 | 9,090 | Q3 | 2.47 | 2.84 | 6.89 |
| 5 | Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 1,047 | 713 | 68.10 | 12,069 | Q2 | 4.56 | 5.09 | 11.53 |
| 6 | Saudi Medical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 988 | 772 | 78.14 | 4,515 | Q4 | 1.42 | 2.12 | 4.57 |
| 7 | Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry | United Arab Emirates | 854 | 81 | 9.48 | 8,429 | Q2 | 3.74 | 4.06 | 9.87 |
| 8 | Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology | United Arab Emirates | 846 | 95 | 11.23 | 5,812 | Q3 | 2.83 | 2.78 | 6.87 |
| 9 | Current Drug Targets | United Arab Emirates | 837 | 40 | 4.78 | 8,746 | Q3 | 2.94 | 3.60 | 10.45 |
| 10 | Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets | United Arab Emirates | 793 | 129 | 16.27 | 4,108 | Q4 | 2.39 | 2.47 | 5.18 |
Note: Arab countries that have at least one medical research journal: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Iraq, Morocco, Kuwait, Algeria, Bahrain, and Libya; Arab countries that do not have any medical research journals indexed in Web of Science: Sudan, Oman, Palestine, Syria, Djibouti, Comoros, Yemen, Mauritania, and Somalia.
JIF: journal impact factor, Q: quartile, IF: impact factor
↵* Publications from all world countries (including Arab countries).
↵† The number of publications from Arab world researchers divided by the total number of publications from the same journal.
↵‡ Journal impact factor source: Journal Citation Reports (2021).
↵§ Citation impact is times cited divided by publications number from the same journal.