AGU professor among top authors in Arab

  • Date: 13-Jan-2021
  • Source: Bizbahrain
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Gulf
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AGU professor among top authors in Arab

The Arabian Gulf University (AGU) recently attained a new achievement at the level of the Arab world with one of the University's academics being selected by a leading organisation among the top 50 authors in the region for their reference citations. This comes as Educational Psychology Professor at AGU's Gifted Education Department Dr Abdulnasser Al Jarrah, who was selected by the Arab Citation and Impact Factor (ARCIF) in its 2020 journal citations report, bagging the 37th place among the best authors in Arab countries from a total of 152,000 authors in the region. It is worth mentioning that ARCIF is a comprehensive database providing citations of peer reviewed academic journals in the Arab world, providing reliable, integrated and multidisciplinary data, linking the output and volume of citations to hundreds of thousands of articles published in Arabic, or in the Arab world, in various disciplines. It is formed of representatives of reputed Arab and international organisations, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Regional Office for Education in the Arab States, located in Beirut, Lebanon, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) Committee, located in Alexandria, Egypt, e-Marefa Databank and the Special