Libyan Journal of Medicine among top journals in African and Arab countries

Figures & data

Table 1. The date of the first publication and the bibliometric data of the 31 general medicine journals from Arab and African nations listed in Scopus database

Journal	First published	H5-index^1	Cites/doc^2 (2 years)	% IC^3
Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association	1926	5	0.33	0.0
Tunisie Medicale	1929	8	0.28	1.5
South African Medical Journal	1932	24	1.23	16.0
The Lebanese Medical Journal	1950	8	0.32	8.3
Ethiopian Medical Journal	1962	9	0.59	19.1
Le Mali Médical	1963	2	0.03	0.0
Jordan Medical Journal	1965	2	0.07	0.0
African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences	1976	8	0.38	0.0
Saudi Medical Journal	1979	20	0.56	8.5
Bahrain Medical Bulletin	1979	NA	0.12	4.5
Qatar Medical Journal	1980	NA	0.00	10.0
West African Journal of Medicine	1981	8	0.35	7.7
Annals of Saudi Medicine	1985	17	1.24	7.6
Medical Principles and Practice	1988	19	1.04	12.7
Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society	1989	NA	0.02	0.0
Malawi Medical Journal	1990	6	0.29	18.5
Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine	1990	8	0.27	0.0
Nigerian Journal of Medicine	1990	10	0.38	0.0
South African Family Practice	1994	10	0.19	10.0
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal	1994	8	0.24	0.0
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal	1995	17	0.56	25.3
Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice	1998	9	0.29	4.9
African Journal Biomedical Research	1998	NA	0.12	7.7
Kuwait Medical Journal	1998	NA	0.05	13.3
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal	1999	5	NA	14.0
African Health Sciences	2001	14	0.58	27.3
Annals of African Medicine	2001	10	0.84	6.0
East African Journal of Public Health	2004	11	0.24	0.0
New Iraqi Journal of Medicine	2005	NA	0.03	10.2
Libyan Journal of Medicine	2006	9	0.29	25.0
International Journal of Health Research	2008	NA	0.46	7.7

Data are from Scimago Journal and Country Rank (http://www.scimagojr.com/ retrieved February 9, 2013), Journals Catalog of the National Library of Medicine, and Google Scholar.

¹H-index for articles published in the last 5 years.

²Average number of citations per document in a 2-year period.

³Percent international collaboration (documents with authors from more than one country address).