Qatar tops Arab world in engineering ,technology, 2025 ARCIF scientific report reveals

Amman: The 2025 Arab Scientific Journals Impact and Citation Report (ARCIF), issued as its tenth annual report, confirmed the State of Qatar s advance...

Amman: The 2025 Arab Scientific Journals Impact and Citation Report (ARCIF), issued as its tenth annual report, confirmed the State of Qatar's advancement in the field of engineering and technology within the Arab world, based on a comprehensive monitoring of scientific production across the region.

Dr. Sami Al Khazendar, Head of the ARCIF initiative, one of the programs under the Ma'arefa Database headquartered in Amman, Jordan, explained that the new report crowns a decade of meticulous tracking of Arab scientific publications, noting that the ten-year results reflect steady growth in the volume and significance of research despite the challenges facing the region.

The ARCIF teams examined approximately 5,500 scientific journals issued by 1,500 scientific institutions in 20 Arab countries, excluding Djibouti and the Comoros, in addition to eight foreign countries publishing Arabic-language journals. Of these, 1,272 journals met 32 internationally recognized standards approved by ARCIF, Al Khazendar noted.

According to the report, data from 364,000 Arab authors were analyzed, covering more than 956,000 scientific papers, with the work of 111,000 authors being cited. Comparisons with the 2016 report showed an increase of 367 percent in the number of journals, 870 percent in the number of articles, and 6,800 percent in the number of cited Arab authors.

Dr. Al Khazendar emphasized that ARCIF has moved Arab scientific production from invisible space to global recognition, stressing that the ARCIF impact factor has become a trusted reference for measuring the influence of Arab journals according to international indicators.