Publication productivity in science and technology at Saudi Arabia Universities' journals

Abstract EN

This paper represents the second step of a consecutive research effort to determine and reveal more aspects of the current status of scientific publication productivity in Public Universities of Saudi Arabia.

Seven universities where included since they represent the one with scientific publication and had the most suitable sample to extract relative information on behalf of all Public Education sector.

Along with an authorship statistical aspect of them the authors managed to derive valuable conclusions on the authorship scene over the last 40 years or so.

The data in this research were retrieved from a special digital library devoted to Saudi Universities and carrying the intellectual property of the most important educational institutions for science and technology of this country valid until 2013.

After some statistical analysis that was performed on the data the inclusions derived, highlighted that the contribution of three basically Public Universities on the overall articles publication volumes was enormous considering also the high similarities on articles production volumes fluctuations per year.

Additionally the authorship productivity totals aspect per author, illustrated a clear dependency of the overall production on authors who produced 1 article in all these years.

This fact along with the small numbers of total production in most cases can be explained as a lack of consistency of Public Universities to follow higher education policies as far as production of articles concern.

In general it can be argued that the academic staff of those Universities are short of strong incentives to increase their intellectual productivity.