Egypt tops 35th out of 233 countries with the latest statistics for scientific publication in Scopus

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Egypt ranked No. 35 out of 233 countries in the top 15% of the world compared to 38 in 2017 and 40th in 2011 in a report on the results of the latest statistics for the scientific publication of the countries in the world.Scopus From a publishing house ElsevierOf 2018, announced by the Foundation Scimago Spanish.

The number of Egyptian researchers in the different sectors reached 135 thousand researchers who worked to increase the research outputs in terms of the number of scientific publications. The total number of international publications in the world-indexed journals was 22,018 in 2018, the rate of publication of research from Egypt every 24 minutes compared to 18,782 in research Were published in 2017 with an increase of 17.2%. He praised Dr. Abdel Ghaffar recorded the highest percentage of Egyptian research published in the top 1% and 10% of the list of magazines listed in Scopus, With publication reaching 1.3% and 12.9% of the total Egyptian research, respectively.

In 2018, the global dissemination of Egypt's educational and research institutions was characterized by the fact that lists of specialties in the top 10% of the world's countries were in three disciplines: toxicology, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, and discovery of the property. And specialized lists of top 15% to 20% of the world in about forty majors. Egypt also ranked 20th out of 106 countries in scientific publishing in the field of nanotechnology in 2018. The number of citations to Egypt during the period 2015-2018 was 326,385 martyrs, with 4.3 martyrdom / research. In 2018, the average impact of citations in research disciplines in Egypt was 1.11 (Field-Weighted Citation Impact), As the Hersh coefficient 260.

Most universities have increased the rewards of scientific publishing with funding to support the publication of research to stimulate researchers to publish distinguished in the top lists of specialty magazines in two platforms Web of ScienceAmerican andScopus Dutch. In addition to interest in raising the level of local magazines to be included in the international platforms and added to the balance of Egyptian research, and workshops were held attended by foreign experts.

The results of the evaluation showed that the publishing in the field of medical sciences was the highest ever, with 5867 researches in 2017 and 2018, followed by engineering sciences with 3544 researches, chemistry with 2,760 researches, while chemical engineering achieved the highest martyrdom / research rate of 4. 3.6 Citation / Research is one of the important interdisciplinary biomedical sciences, of which the Ministry is interested in sending missions abroad to raise the number of specialists.

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