Scientific Study of Middle East countries in Psychology (1996-2010)

Biglu, Mohammad-Hossein; Chakhmachi, Negin; Biglu, Sahar

doi:10.1080/09737766.2013.832900

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“…The majority of publication in the field came from two developed region Western Europe and North America). This is not the first study that showed the dominance of these regions in scientific activities; previous researches also verified the impact of these region in science (17,18,19). Possibly the reason was that, some leading institutes in Homeopathy such as the University of Exeter, University of Plymouth, Royal Homeopath Hospital of London and University of Southampton are located in England.…”

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A Homeopathic Perspective on Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

Hossein¹,

Khatereh²,

Biglu³

et al. 2014

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A Homeopathic Perspective on Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

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Khatereh²,

Biglu³

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“…With the exception of these studies by Gul et al (2015) and Moed (2016), the remaining bibliometric studies covering UAE (mostly in comparison to other Middle East countries) have been mostly confined to a particular discipline/field such as science and social sciences (Meo et al, 2016), science, medicine, and technology (Akyüz and Correia, 2017), groundwater resources (Zyoud and Fuchs-Hanusch, 2015), tobacco use (Zyoud et al, 2014), biomedical research (Benamer and Bakoush, 2009), environmental sciences (Meo et al, 2013), obesity-related research (Sweileh et al, 2014b), public, environmental and occupational health research (Sweileh et al, 2015), psychology (Biglu et al, 2014), substance use disorders (Sweileh et al, 2014a), and diabetes mellitus research (Sweileh et al, 2014c). It is clear from the review that there has not been any detailed investigation of the overall research performance of the UAE and other GCC countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Citation analysis is widely regarded as a measure of research quality or impact (Kostoff, 1998;Tian et al, 2008) and is an indicator of research performance, providing comparable and objective information of research performance of a larger group (institutions, countries) over a period of time (van Raan, 2014). Some of the more commonly used citation indicators identified from the literature include citation count, mean citation, h-index, the proportion of cited manuscripts (Glanville et al, 2011;Crespo et al, 2012;Biglu et al, 2014;Sweileh et al, 2014a). However, since the age of manuscripts is likely to impact citation rates, i.e., older manuscripts are likely to get more citations than recently published manuscripts (Tian et al, 2008), the literature suggests the need for normalizing citation count to alleviate this issue.…”

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Benchmarking the research performance of United Arab Emirates with gulf cooperation council countries – A bibliometric study

2022

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The research performance of a country is an indicator of its scientific progress and benchmarking it with regional countries is critical to assess a country’s regional competitiveness. This study aims to assess and benchmark the research productivity of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against other member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, who have similar macroeconomic and socio-cultural characteristics. Scopus was used as the data source to extract the research output of each of the six countries studied for the period 1995–2019. Bibliometric indicators covering both quantity and impact of research such as publication output, citation, and collaboration indicators were used to assess the research performance of UAE and other GCC countries. The findings indicate good progress in the UAE’s overall research performance during the period of study. Also, UAE’s research performance in most of the bibliometric indicators is comparable or superior to the other GCC countries. This study is the first of its kind and addresses the dearth of bibliometric studies assessing UAE’s research productivity and GCC countries in general. The findings are useful for administrators and policymakers to benchmark the performance of the UAE with other GCC countries, including its impact, growth, and trajectories. For researchers, the study indicators and methods can be replicated to assess the overall research performance of other countries.

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“…Accordingly, programming and policy developments are growing globally (Hendriks et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2018). Still, while such growth is happening across the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) (i.e., Lambert & Pasha-Zaidi, 2019;Lambert, Passmore, & Joshanloo, 2019;Lambert, Passmore, Scull et al, 2019;Rao et al, 2015), as a whole, the region lags in terms of knowledge development (Biglu et al, 2014;El Borai et al, 2018;Ryan & Daly, 2019). Beyond the need to produce localized data, assessing the efficacy of such programs can be useful in developing policies towards greater student wellbeing (Clair, 2014;Högberg, 2019;Marquez & Main, 2020;Powell & Graham, 2017;Thorburn, 2018), critical in times of stability and in a COVID-19 context, where early reports show that youth wellbeing remains a concern in many nations (Hawke et al, 2020;Huang & Zhao, 2020;Marques de Miranda et al, 2020).…”

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Lambert¹,

Joshanloo²,

Marquez³

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Predictive of improved learning outcomes, better mental health, and prosocial behavior, wellbeing can be explicitly taught via positive psychology interventions (PPIs). A year-long multi-component PPI program was developed with the intent to generate positive emotions, life satisfaction, and increase levels of mental toughness and perceptions of school kindness in 538 middle and high expatriate school students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The program began in September 2019 and included gratitude, self-compassion, mental contrasting, and acts of kindness as examples. Increases in life satisfaction and mental toughness variables (i.e. interpersonal confidence, emotional control, and life control) at mid-year (December) were sustained or grew by the end of the year (June). Positive affect, hedonic wellbeing and social wellbeing increased at post-intervention 1 but reverted to their pre-intervention levels at post-intervention 2. Further, four variables did not increase significantly at post-intervention 1, yet significantly increased at post-intervention 2 (psychological wellbeing, negative affect, perception of control over challenge, and school kindness). During the lockdown, students engaged in less physical activity, but more sleep, social media use and time playing online games. Students who increased their hours of sleep were more likely to experience greater wellbeing. Our findings show that it is possible to boost wellbeing and maintain it during a pandemic via the use of PPIs, but also that the basics of kindness and sleep go a long way towards promoting the mental wellbeing of youth overall, and in this critical time. The efficacy of PPI programs may be considered as a policy tool to remedy the growing inequalities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including those present beforehand globally and in the Middle East region.

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Scientific Study of Middle East countries in Psychology (1996-2010)

Cited by 5 publications

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A Homeopathic Perspective on Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

A Homeopathic Perspective on Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

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