Scientific publications from Arab world in leading journals of Integrative and Complementary Medicine: A bibliometric analysis

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zyoud, Sa'ed H ^a,b   Al Jabi, Samah W ^a   Sweileh, Waleed M ^a  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arab world; Bibliometric; h index; Integrative and Complementary Medicine; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARAB; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMOROS; EGYPT; HERB; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; JORDAN; MOROCCO; PALESTINE; PUBLICATION; QATAR; SAUDI ARABIA; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOMALIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; YEMEN; AFRICA; ARAB WORLD; MIDDLE EAST;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ARAB WORLD; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84940763983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-015-0840-z     Document Type: Article

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