Quantity and quality of obesity-related research in Arab countries: assessment and comparative analysis

Table 4 Top 10 journals in which obesity documents from the 21 Arab countries were published

SCR^a	Journal	Number (%)	IF^b
SCR^a	Journal	n = 1,121	IF^b
1 ^st	Saudi Medical Journal	107 (9.55)	0.619
2 ^nd	Annals of Saudi Medicine	58 (5.17)	1.103
3 ^rd	Obesity Surgery	28 (2.50)	3.102
4 ^th	International Journal of Obesity	21 (1.87)	5.221
5 ^th	Medical Principles and Practice	18 (1.61)	0.963
6 ^th	Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice	17 (1.52)	2.741
7 ^th	Diabetes Metabolism	14 (1.25)	2.388
7 ^th	Public Health Nutrition	14 (1.25)	2.250
9 ^th	Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism	13 (1.16)	1.661
10 ^th	Obesity Reviews	12 (1.07)	6.870

SCR, Standard Competition Ranking; NA, Not available; IF, Impact factor.
^aEqual journals have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.
^bThe impact factor was reported according to Institute for Scientific InformationJournal Citation Reports, 2012.

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