2016/02/15 by Henk F. Moed, Moed, Henk F.
Social Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #Education and Islamic Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Socioeconomic Development in MENA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.04701
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A longitudinal bibliometric analysis of publications indexed in Thomson\nReuters' Incites and Elsevier's Scopus, and published from Persian Gulf States\nand neighbouring Middle East countries, shows clear effects of major political\nevents during the past 35 years. Predictions made in 2006 by the US diplomat\nRichard N. Haass on political changes in the Middle East have come true in the\nGulf States' national scientific research systems, to the extent that Iran has\nbecome in 2015 by far the leading country in the Persian Gulf, and South-East\nAsian countries including China, Malaysia and South Korea have become major\nscientific collaborators, displacing the USA and other large Western countries.\nBut collaborations patterns among Persian Gulf States show no apparent\nrelationship with differences in Islam denominations.\n