Table 2 Contribution of each Arab country and the top 10 collaborating non-Arab countries

Arab country

Number of documents

% (N = 6542)

Egypt

2677

40.9

Saudi Arabia

1019

15.6

Sudan

758

11.6

Tunisia

597

9.1

Morocco

439

6.7

Iraq

316

4.8

Algeria

172

2.6

Kuwait

150

2.3

Jordan

126

1.9

Yemen

126

1.9

Lebanon

111

1.7

Oman

96

1.5

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

89

1.4

United Arab Emirates

86

1.3

Qatar

59

0.9

The Syrian Arab Republic

54

0.8

Palestine

50

0.8

Somalia

31

0.5

Mauritania

27

0.4

Bahrain

22

0.3

Comoros

8

0.1

Djibouti

4

0.1

Non-Arab country

Number of documents

% (N = 6542)

United States

608

9.3

United Kingdom

469

7.2

France

306

4.7

Germany

183

2.8

Switzerland

177

2.7

India

157

2.4

Netherlands

152

2.3

Italy

124

1.9

Belgium

98

1.5

China

83

1.3