The Role of the Arab Impact Factor in Enhancing the Quality of the Scientific Publication of the Periodicals Indexed within Databases for the period 2015-2022
دور معامل التأثير العربي في تجويد النشر العلمي للدوريات المفهرسة ضمن قواعده للفترة 2015-2022م
Abstract
The study aimed at identifying the role of the Arab Impact Factor in enhancing the quality of the scientific publication of the periodicals indexed within databases for the period 2015-2022. The study followed the descriptive analytical approach, analyzing the Arab Impact Factor reports for the period 2015-2022. Results of the study revealed that the number of the indexed journals in the Arab Impact Factor during the said period has increased from 28 journals en 2015 to 557 journals en 2022, and the likely weight of the overall development percentage in the number of the indexed journals was about (63%), and the number of the new journals that entered the ranking ranged between (28-147), which means an average increase of (90.38) new periodicals per year. The new journals reached their highest level en 2017 when (147) new periodicals entered into the ranking, while the year 2022 witnessed the largest number of 166 journals. The indexed periodicals were distributed to 35 Arab, Islamic and foreign countries. Most of them were brought into focus in the first ten ranks, namely, Algeria, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and United Arab Emirates, with an estimated total of (2374) magazines, i.e., a combined percentage of more than 85% of the total. While the remaining percentage was distributed to the other countries, in varying proportions. The Arab American University Journal of Research, which is published in Palestine, topped the first three positions during the period (2015-2022), with a seven-time frequency. The results indicated that the Arab Impact Factor has played a moderate role in improving the scientific publication of the indexed journals within databases. However, there was a difference between the level of quality of scientific publication in the first ranking of the indexed journals, and the level of the quality of the scientific publications of these journals in the last general ranking (2022), in favor of the year 2022. The study offered a set of recommendations to enhance the quality of the scientific publishing of the indexed journals.
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