Publications · 2021–2025
Publications
Health publications with at least one Saudi-affiliated author, from PubMed matched with OpenAlex. A Saudi affiliation is not the same as research on the Saudi population.
Health publications with at least one Saudi-affiliated author
The two first-or-last-author choices overlap: a paper with a Saudi-based and a dual-affiliated lead is under both.
Showing 2021–2025 · research papers only · Any Saudi author
Research publications
Each paper counts once, in the year of its earliest publication date.
Source: PubMed with OpenAlex · 2021–2025 provisional
Saudi-based first or last author
Each paper is counted once, even if the other lead is dual-affiliated. Beside it, papers whose only first or last authors with a Saudi affiliation are dual-affiliated: 10% ().
54%
of the 67,466 papers · 2021–2025 provisional
Open access
Any route in OpenAlex: diamond, gold, hybrid, green or bronze.
79%
of the 67,441 papers with an open-access status recorded · 2021–2025 provisional
Research papers only. All publication designs, not only observational. Source: PubMed, matched with OpenAlex; papers with at least one Saudi affiliation; PubMed snapshot of 4 October 2026; OpenAlex data as of 29 October 2026.
Applies: year (year of earliest publication) and publication scope. Does not apply: Saudi-based first or last author, or lead sponsor; sponsorship is a registry field, and a paper’s industry involvement is judged separately, from author affiliations, funding statements and declared interests. Each paper counts once, in the year of its earliest publication date. This total is never added to any registration count.
PubMed with OpenAlex · 2021–2025
Every publication item type, research or not. All publication designs, not only observational. Source: PubMed, matched with OpenAlex; papers with at least one Saudi affiliation; PubMed snapshot of 4 October 2026; OpenAlex data as of 29 October 2026.
Applies: year (year of earliest publication) and publication scope. Does not apply: Saudi-based first or last author, or lead sponsor; sponsorship is a registry field, and a paper’s industry involvement is judged separately, from author affiliations, funding statements and declared interests. Each paper counts once, in the year of its earliest publication date. This total is never added to any registration count.
PubMed with OpenAlex · 2021–2025
01 / STUDY TYPES
Five Groups, Twenty-Seven Study Types
Each research paper has one study type, coded from its title and abstract under the labelling guide. The code records the design reported, not the quality of the study. Open a group to see its types.
Applies: year, publication scope and Saudi authorship. The code describes the publication, not the larger study it comes from: a qualitative paper from a trial is qualitative, and an economic paper from a trial is economic. Types are shown on their group's own scale; each paper has one type, so they sum to the group. Groups and types keep their code order.
Outside the twenty-seven study types · never added to the research total
Non-research N1–N6 · case reports, editorials, letters, news, errata, other:
Unclassified U · not enough information in the record:
02 / OPENALEX-NORMALISED CITATION INFLUENCE
Citation Measures By Year
Two measures from OpenAlex, each compared with the world for the same field and year: mean field-weighted citation impact (World = 1.00) and the share in the world's top tenth most cited (World = 10%), with fractional counting, by OpenAlex publication year, and nothing shown for a selection with too few papers that carry the measure. Papers without the measure are left out, never counted as zero.
Not shown. Not yet computed, below the threshold for a reliable figure, or the only source is too old to print. The reason is always given.
Mean field-weighted citation impact
2.17
95% stability interval 2.13 to 2.21 · 51,089 papers with the measure
Not shown
OpenAlex · OpenAlex years 2021–2024 provisional
Share in the world’s top 10% most cited
24.3%
95% stability interval 23.8% to 24.8% · 51,089 papers with the measure
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OpenAlex · OpenAlex years 2021–2024 provisional
03 / ACCESS AND AUTHORSHIP
Open Access, Collaboration & Team Size
Full counting: each paper counts once, whatever its number of authors or countries. Each chart is a share of the papers in this view.
Gold: in a fully open-access journal. Diamond: in a fully open-access journal that charges neither readers nor authors. Hybrid: free under an open licence in a subscription journal. Green: in a subscription journal, with a free copy in an open repository. Bronze: free to read on the publisher's site, without an open licence. Closed: no free copy found. Each paper has one route, as OpenAlex records it.
Share of the 67,441 papers with an open-access status recorded · OpenAlex
Number of authors on the paper, as bands, in the order of the bands.
International collaboration
Papers with at least one affiliation outside Saudi Arabia, including the foreign affiliation of an author who also lists a Saudi one. Papers whose affiliations aren't recorded stay in the total and are not counted as international.
72%
of the 67,466 papers
04 / INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
Industry Involvement In Papers
Each paper has one of four codes, read from its conflict-of-interest statement, grant list, author affiliations and linked registration under the industry involvement guide. The four codes keep the guide's order.
This publication-side code and the lead sponsor used for clinical trials and observational studies are different measures. They are never combined, and one is not a check on the other.
No statement is never read as no industry link: statements are missing by journal, not by content, so the two are always shown apart. Author ties only is its own value and is not counted as industry-involved. Each code's share is of the 67,466 papers in this view. Applies: year, publication scope and Saudi authorship. Clinical trials and observational studies with an industry lead sponsor are on Clinical Studies And Industry, as separate counts.
Industry involvement in papers is a lower bound.
Industry involvement is identified from the paper's own record and registration; it does not establish financial investment and is a lower bound.
Records Behind This Figure
* Not final: counts for these years usually rise at later updates, as recent papers are still being added; citation measures change as citations build up. On this page: publications 2025; citation measures 2023–2024.