Saudi Public Universities in terms of Intellectual Productivity
Ali Saad Alali
International Journal of Information Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2015.
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Link: https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v7n2/ijisv7n2_2.pdf
Abstract:
The primary goal of this study was to determine the current status in article production terms after decades of
evolving for public Saudi Universities. The basic direction of the research focused on separating all intellectual work in two
broad language sectors. Furthermore and based on these two sectors perform a geostatistical and other analysis to deliver
enough information in order to open a discussion on intellectual property issues regarding the public Universities of Saudi
Arabia. The data in this research were retrieved from a special digital library on the Web devoted to Saudi Universities,
carrying the intellectual property of the most significant educational institutions for science and technology of this country,
valid until 2013. The outcome of this research highlighted the constantly fourteen years growing tendency of intellectual
production in Saudi Universities despite two highly downgraded years. Nevertheless the data illustrated that English
language section is mostly responsible for this long and almost steady uptake through years of intellectual production and
displayed three Saudi Universities as being the most influential education institutions for this growth. Finally the mapping
analysis revealed that every significant public institution as far as articlesâ€™ production concerns resides on a prospering
(from publication of articles point of view) straight geographically line from Jeddah to Dammam including the capital of the
country Riyadh.