STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TOP 2% CITED SCIENTISTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

Abstract

Elsevier BV has issued the annual datasets for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation metrics’ in October 2022.  The two datasets contain the top two percent of the most-cited scientists worldwide in various disciplines under two categories, “career-long” and for “single recent year impact” respectively.  The statistics for the countries from the Middle East are presented.  We also present a detailed statistical analysis covering factors such as the gross domestic product, expenditure on research & development considering the population of the countries with the required scaling.