Assessing urology and nephrology research activity in Arab countries using ISI web of science bibliometric database

Table 1 Top 10 journals in which urology and nephrology documents from the 21 Arab countries were published

SCR^a	Journal name	Number of documents	IF^b
		N (100%) = 3176
1 ^st	Annales D Urologie	402 (12.66)	NA^c
2 ^nd	Journal of Urology	313 (9.86)	3.696
3 ^rd	BJU International (British Journal of Urology) ^d	307 (9.67)	3.046
4 ^th	Progres en Urologie	225 (7.08)	0.801
5 ^th	Urology	207 (6.52)	2.424
6 ^th	Journal of Sexual Medicine	97 (3.05)	3.513
6 ^th	Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation	97 (3.05)	3.371
6 ^th	Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology	97 (3.05)	1.007
9 ^th	Journal D Urologie	94 (2.96)	2.708
9 ^th	Changed to Archives of Dermatological Research	94 (2.96)	2.708
10 ^th	Journal of Endourology	89 (2.80)	2.074

Abbreviations: SCR standard competition ranking; NA not available; IF impact factor.
^aEqual journals have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.
^bThe impact factor was reported according to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citation reports (JCR) 2012.
^cDiscontinued on 2007.
^dStarted on 1929 as British Journal of Urology and was discontinued on 1998. Continued as BJU International.

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