The Universities of Ouargla and Biskra were able to reserve a place for themselves among the top 10 universities in terms of the number of citations, according to the ARCIF 2024 report, as the University of Kasdi Merbah in Ouargla came in sixth place with a total of 6066 citations, while the University of Mohamed Khider in Biskra came in tenth place with a total of 4904 citations. According to the same report, Iraq won first place, with what was achieved by the “University of Baghdad”, which obtained 10739 citations, while the total number of articles published in scientific journals by authors affiliated with the University of Baghdad, and whose articles were cited, amounted to 4301 articles, and “Ain Shams University” in Egypt advanced to second place, as the number of scientific citations achieved by authors affiliated with it amounted to 8039 citations, and the number of their articles cited amounted to 2232 scientific articles.
In third place was King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, where the number of scientific citations achieved by authors affiliated with the university reached 7933 citations, while the volume of scientific production from published scientific articles cited by them was 1833 scientific articles.
Jordan achieved the fourth and fifth places respectively, where Yarmouk University came in fourth place, through the number of scientific citations obtained by authors affiliated with it, which amounted to 6545 scientific citations, while the number of scientific articles published by them and cited by them amounted to 1437 articles, followed by the University of Jordan.
For reference, the Arab Impact Factor (ARCIF) recently published the results of its ninth annual journal report for the year 2024, where approximately 5,000 scientific and research journals published in Arabic by approximately 1,500 scientific and research bodies were reviewed, and 1,201 scientific journals succeeded in achieving the 32 criteria adopted by ARCIF. The report also included a review of the data and results of 311,000 Arab authors, whose research was limited to 850,000 scientific articles, which showed that more than 85,000 Arab authors had their scientific and academic production cited.