Saudi Arabia: research output 2026
On October 24, 2026, researchers affiliated with institutions in Saudi Arabia published 89 research papers, ranking 18th of 152 countries and 1.0% of the world's output that day. 20 records with a Saudi Arabia affiliation were added to PubMed.
Papers on Oct 2489
World rank#18
Share of world output1.0%
Last 7 days1,182
Last 30 days6,266
Daily average (30 days)216
Last 30 days
Most active institutions
- King Faisal University · 10 papers
- Qassim University · 9 papers
- King Saud University · 7 papers
- Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University · 6 papers
- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · 6 papers
Most-cited scientists
- Omar M. Yaghi · King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology · 253,674 citations
- Ziad Ahmed Memish · Alfaisal University · 220,260 citations
- Jürgen Schmidhuber · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · 191,159 citations
- Neeraj Bedi · DY Patil Deemed to be University · 183,114 citations
- Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy · University of Ha'il · 176,909 citations
Papers per day
| Date | Papers |
|---|---|
| Sat, Oct 24 | 89 |
| Fri, Oct 23 | 203 |
| Thu, Oct 22 | 214 |
| Wed, Oct 21 | 210 |
| Tue, Oct 20 | 203 |
| Mon, Oct 19 | 173 |
| Sun, Oct 18 | 90 |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 135 |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 201 |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 249 |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 241 |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 220 |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 216 |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 61 |
Counts are papers (articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters) with at least one author affiliated with an institution in Saudi Arabia, by publication date, from OpenAlex. Recent days keep rising for a week as journals report their papers.
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