Contribution of Arab countries to pharmaceutical wastewater literature: A bibliometric and comparative analysis of research output

Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

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

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arab world; Bibliometric; Non Arab Middle Eastern countries; Pharmaceutical wastewater; Scopus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUSTRY; EGYPT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRAN; ISRAEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOROCCO; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; TUNISIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84996486095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40557-016-0117-0     Document Type: Article

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