UAEU is making quantum leaps in scientific research

  • Date: 06-Jan-2022
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:UAE
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UAEU is making quantum leaps in scientific research

Al Ain : The United Arab Emirates University has made a qualitative ‎leap in the academic research during 2021, which is a year ‎full of many research achievements and scientific ‎innovations. The academic research is a fundamental pillar ‎through which the university seeks to provide the capabilities ‎to achieve the university's vision of being a research-intensive ‎university.‎ The UAEU researchers were able to enhance the role of the ‎university as a center of expertise and knowledge through the ‎results of research supervised by the various research teams ‎from various colleges and research centers, which were ‎published in the most prestigious international journals. The ‎UAEU researchers published 1934 research papers in 2021 in ‎those journals, compared to 1,538 papers in 2020, which is ‎an increase of 25.7%. The College of Science researchers ‎published 491 research papers according to Scopus database ‎in 2021, while the College of Engineering researchers ‎published 369 and the College of Medicine and Health ‎Sciences 373 research papers in 2021.‎ The university pays great attention to the quality of education ‎outcomes by encouraging researchers to publish in the top ‎‎25% of international journals according to Scopus database. ‎The data shows that the quality of research production is ‎constantly