Promoting an academic culture in the Arab world

Moustafa, Khaled

doi:10.4103/ajm.ajm_166_17

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“…According to a systematic review (Kolk and Rivera-Santos, 2018) of the state of research on Africa, there is a significant imbalance in publication patterns, topics, theoretical groundings, types of contributions, approaches to the African contexts and empirical methods. Even less research focuses on the Middle East context, which suffers from a myriad of complications linked to research quality and academic integrity (Moustafa, 2018;Kaako, 2019). We hope this special issue helps address some of these gaps through service research.…”

Section: Growing Partnerships With Emerging Economies; Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guest Editorial: Expanding service research in the MEA (Middle East and Africa) region

Alkire

Hammedi

2021

JSM

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Purpose The purpose of this special issue is to advance discussions on how the richness, complexities and challenges of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) context can contribute to the understanding of under-researched, as well as newly emerging, phenomena within the service research field. Design/methodology/approach This special issue of the Journal of Services Marketing consists of eight articles that focus on different service research topics emerging from the MEA region. The eight papers cover a variety of research methods (e.g. interviews, focus groups, ethnography, case study, survey), participants (e.g. customers, executives, households, refugees, human trafficking survivors, NGO leaders, government officials), countries (e.g. Zambia, Turkey, Nigeria, Morocco, South Africa, Senegal, Lebanon) and service industries (e.g. health care, finance, hospitality, faith-based services). Findings This editorial provides background information on the MEA context and proposes a unique research agenda for MEA development with a portfolio of intriguing research questions and inspiring opportunities for further research. Specifically, the editorial highlights six of the most promising and unique avenues for service research in the MEA context by considering the diversity and variations between the MEA nations: cultivate service inclusion; tackle service corruption and designing for justice; climate protection to mitigate further instability and conflict; closing the gap in digital technology: opportunities and challenges; prioritize essential service sectors (education, health care and tourism); and eradicate “service” poverty. Originality/value This special issue is a first attempt to explore the MEA region from a service research perspective. The editorial discusses unique challenges and opportunities from theoretical and managerial points of view and calls for embracing this region as the new frontier for service researchers.

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Section: Growing Partnerships With Emerging Economies; Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guest Editorial: Expanding service research in the MEA (Middle East and Africa) region

Alkire

Hammedi

2021

JSM

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“…Political instability, regional conflicts, lack of proper research infrastructure and equipment, lack of freedom and democracy, brain drain, lack of funding and difficulty of publishing in high impact journals seem to be the main reasons for the lack of research 17 . Moreover, ethical issues are being raised in the Arab world, including serious misconduct in medical research and practice and biased funding and recruitment policies called "wasta" (meaning "intercession") 18 .…”

Section: Research Activity In the Arab Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is proof of a progressive increase in overall burden, incidence, prevalence and AF associated mortality between 1990 and 2010 with significant public health implications. Thus, the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) increased by 18.8% in men and 18.9% in women and the mortality associated with AF increased by 2-fold and 1.9-fold in men and women respectively 2 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Atrial Fibrillation in the Arab World: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Activity from 2004 to 2019

Akiki

Hage

Wakim

et al. 2021

J Cardiac Arrhtythmias

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Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is in an increasing pattern worldwide, especially in the Arab world. Objective: The aim of this article is to assess AF research activity in the Arab countries over the past 16 years, taking into consideration the population size, gross domestic product (GDP) and disability-adjusted life years (DALY). Methods: Atrial fibrillation related research articles published from Arab countries between 2004 and 2019 were collected from the MEDLINE database and are cited online on PubMed. Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms related to the subject, the origin and the date of publication were used to search for the published articles. Results: The number of AF related publications in the Arab world over the past 16 years was only 283 (0.73%) out of a total of 38,983 publications worldwide. Saudi Arabia ranked first in terms of number of AF related publications, followed by Egypt. Lebanon is the country with the highest number of publications per USD billion GDP, while Egypt and Saudi Arabia have the highest number of publications per 1% DALYs. According to the population size, Qatar and Bahrain produced the highest number of publications per million persons (PPMP). A strong and positive correlation was found between the number of publications and the GDP. The population size and the percentage of DALY showed positive yet weak correlation. Conclusion: A slight increase in AF related publications is observed. Nonetheless, AF research activity in the Arab world is still insufficient.

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“…However, in the Arab world, there is a blatant lack of scientific infrastructures and scientific culture more generally. 2 , 3 Most of the current information about COVID-19, and other health and scientific issues in the Arab world, are based on and derived from abroad sources, be it reliable or not, despite the huge financial and scientific potentials of Arab countries.…”

Section: Dear Editormentioning

confidence: 99%