title: Pharmaceutical research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A scientometric analysis during 2001-2010.
abstract: Studies on the performance of Saudi Arabia in the pharmaceutical science research using quantitative and qualitative measures. They analyze the productivity and global publication share and rank of the top 15 countries. The author studies Saudi Arabia's publications output, growth and citation quality, international collaborative publication share and most important the collaborating partners, contribution and citation impact of its top 15 organizations and authors, productivity patterns of its top publishing journals and characteristics of its highly cited papers.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Alhaider
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Mueen Ahmed
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Pusa, K.S.Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Pharmaceutical science; Publications; Saudi Arabia; Scientometrics