An-Najah National University (ANNU) is a Palestinian
university that was established more than 35 years ago. The objective of this
study was to do a bibliometric assessment of research output, which describes
the growth, contribution, and impact of research carried out by the faculty
members, researchers, or students of ANNU in the past 35 years. The data used
for this study were retrieved from Scopus database. Bibliometric analysis was
used to identify the pattern of publication, relative growth rate, authorship
pattern, collaborative measures, author’s productivity, most prolific authors,
and most prolific journals. A total of 791 published documents were retrieved
for ANNU. Seventeen documents (2.1%) were published in Acta Crystallographica
Section E Structure Reports Online, whereas 16 (2.0%) were published in Journal
of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Environmental Science and
Engineering, and 10 (1.3%) were published in International Journal of Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Six hundred one (76%) documents were published
in journals listed in Web of Knowledge. The total number of citations for
documents published from ANNU, at the time of data analysis (November 19,
2013), was 4,553, with an average of 5.8 citations per document. The study
identified 384 (25.8%) documents with 59 countries as ANNU–foreign
collaborators. Research output from ANNU showed steady growth over the past 35
years. Research output was high from certain scientific disciplines, whereas
was lagging from others. Future emphasis on joint research, international
collaboration, and publishing in indexed journals is needed.
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