Arab women's productivity in science and technology disciplines a study on scholarly research outputs in the international databases : A Scientometric Study

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قسم المکتبات جامعة المنيا

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the contributions of Arab women in the field
of science and technology at the international level to provide a general picture of
the participation of Arab women in world scientific production in this field. The
paper highlights the role of women in science and the gap in research
productivity between men and women. Highlighting policy decisions to promote
women's research in Arab countries. The list of research papers published by
Arab researchers in the field of science and technology was obtained from the ISI
Web of Science database from 1979 to 2017. Based on the Scientometrics
method The analysis revealed that researches of Arab women in science and
technology, 29.2% of the total published in science and technology, Prepared by
498 women. The field of education and educational research ranked first in
research disciplines related to science and technology, And Saudi women ranked
first in terms of the total number of Arab women's research with 75 researches by
20.2%. International cooperation contributed to the publication of a large number
of Arab women's research published internationally in the field of science and
technology. The researcher Najla Sami Abdul Aziz, For the interior design, Ajman
University of Science and Technology of the UAE has the highest productivity
with 6 researches, and the superiority of co-authorship on individual authorship,
where the number of joint researches in which more than 303 researchers and
researchers contributed 83.1% of the total research of Arab women

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