A scientometrics study of the research productivity of prince Mohammad bin Fahd university in Scopus database in ten years (2008 to 2018)‎

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This paper describes the scientometric study of faculty member's research productivity at Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University (PMU) in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

The study aims to evaluate the research performances of the faculty members at Mohammed Bin Fahd University, researchers and graduate students for the last 10 years.

PMU was established in 2008 and data is collected for this case study from Scopus database during 2008-2018.

This study has analyzed approximately 609 scientific research publications over 10 years.

These publications include 434 research papers, 143 conference proceedings, 15 book chapters, 11 reviews, and 2 Erratum.

The current study highlights the active researchers of the PMU, their fields, and the journals in which they published their research work.

An evaluation of their research productivity in terms of publishing, citations, and H-index is also described.

The paper also analyzes the significant differences between the averages of research productivity level for the PMU faculty members due to the variables ranking, and the difficulties for research production from the opinion of the faculty members.