King Abdulaziz
University
Faculty of Medicine
Vice-Deanship for
Postgraduate Studies
and Research
2016
Report/Statistics
Introduction
• For the year 2016, the Vice-Dean for Postgraduate
Studies and Research office has recorded 402
researches.
• Research were conducted by Faculty of Medicine,
University Hospital, and Scientific Chairs
• Professors, Assistant Professors, Demonstrators
and even medical students have contributed to the
research.
Report
219
259
327
382 402
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
5-Year comparison of
Total Published Article
Report
102
125
140 145 151
0
50
100
150
200
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
5-Year Comparison of
Teaching Staff With Atleast One Referred Publication
Report
243
278
297
151
168 181
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
2014 2015 2016
Publication with At Least One Male and/or Female Affiliated to KAU FOM
Involved in the Authorship of a Publication
Male
Female
Report
1.09
1.236 1.297
0.99
1.07
1.191
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
2014 2015 2016
Ratio of Publications with At Least One Male and/or Female Affiliated
to KAU FOM Involved in the Authorship of a Publication
Male
Female
Report
127
185 179
78
98 101
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
2014 2015 2016
Publications with At Least One Male and/or Female Affiliated to KAU FOM
Involved in the Authorship of an ISI Publication
Male
Female
Report
0.569
0.822 0.782
0.513
0.624 0.664
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
2014 2015 2016
Ratio of Publications with At Least One Male and/or Female Affiliated to KAU
FOM Involved in the Authorship of an ISI Publication
Male
Female
Report
135
267
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
With Without
2016 Faculty of Medicine Published Research with Authors
Affiliated to FOM and External Affiliation
Report
2016 Research Sources
PubMed
279
Web of Science
256
Google Scholar
391
68 3
39
207
Report
256
279
391
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
Web of Science Pubmed Google Scholar
2016 Articles' availability thru online resource websites
Report
73
25
38 37 34
44
33
28
19
31
26
14
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
2016 Research per Month
Report
76%
13%
4%
7%
2016 Published Research
Faculty and Hospital
Faculty
Hospital
Hospital & Faculty
Centers Only
Report
• A total of 402 researches were conducted by both Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital
Faculty of Medicine = 305 articles
University Hospital = 54 articles
Both Faculty & Hospital = 15 articles
Research Center = 28 articles
Report
103
52
37 29 29 26 24 23 21 21
16 16 15 13 11 10 9 5 4 4 3 1 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2016 Research Published per Department
Report
34
8
3 3 2 2 0 0
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Princess Al-
Jawhara
Albrahim
Center of
Excellence in
Hereditary
Disorders
Research
Yousef
Abdullatif
Jameel
Research
Chair for
Prophetic
Medicine
Center of
Excellence for
Osteoporosis
Research
Mohammed
Hussein Al-
Amoudi Chair
for Diabetic
Foot Research
Chair for
Abdullah
Basalamh of
the Women's
Tumors
Colon Cancer
Chair
Sheikh
Mohammed
Hussien AL-
Amoudi
Center of
Excellence in
Breast Cancer
Sheikh
Mohammed
Hussien Al-
Amoudi Chair
for Viral
Hemorrhagic
Fever
2016 Research per Scientific Research Centers
Report
0.000
0.500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2.500
2016 Research Published to Staff Ratio
Report
• The staff includes:
– Professors
– Associate Professors
– Assistant Professors
• Formula:
Total no. of research
____________________
Total no. of staff
Report Department Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer
Anatomy 4 4 9 5
Anesthesia and ICU 2 1 6 0
Clinical Biochemistry 4 4 7 2
Dermatology 1 0 4 6
Emergency Medicine 0 0 4 0
Family Medicine 5 4 12 0
Hematology 3 3 5 0
Internal Medicine 14 10 40 0
Medical Education 6
Medical Genetics 2 1 3 0
Microbiology and Medical
Parasitology 5 10 13 2
Obstetrics and Gynecology 9 3 15 0
Opthalmology 3 0 4 0
ORL 1 3 4 0
Orthopedics 1 0 5 0
Pathology 6 6 6 2
Pediatrics 8 9 21 0
Pharmacology 2 3 4 0
Physiology 2 5 6 3
Radiology 1 3 12 0
Surgery 13 9 16 0
Urology 1 2 4 0
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0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
2016 Average Impact Factor PER Department
Report
0.000
1.000
2.000
3.000
4.000
5.000
6.000
2016 Average Impact Factor PER Department Staff
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Chemically-induced
Arthritis in Rats: Role of Pro-inflammatory and Pain-mediating Cytokines
Source: FASEB Journal
ISSN: 0892-6638
Date and Year of
Publication: APR 2016
Impact Factor: 5.480
Affiliated
Department(s): Clinical Biochemistry, Patholog
Author(s): Hazem Atta, Abdulwahab Noorwali, Taghreed Bashah, Ahmed Ganem
10
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Endovascular Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke Challenges and Transition
From Trials to Bedside
Source: Stroke
ISSN: 1524-4628
Date and Year of
Publication: FEB 2016
Impact Factor: 6.018
Affiliated
Department(s): Internal Medicine
Author(s):
Mayank Goyal, YX Amy, Bijoy K Menon, Diederik WJ Dippel, Werner Hacke,
Stephen M Davis, Marc Fisher, Dileep R Yavagal, Francis Turjman, Jeffrey
Ross, Shinichi Yoshimura, Zhongrong Miao, Rohit Bhatia, Mohammed
Almekhlafi, Yuichi Murayama, Sung-Il Sohn, Jeffrey L Saver, Andrew M
Demchuk, Michael D Hill
9
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Utilization of High Throughput Cancer Hotspot Mutations Screening for the
Molecular Profiling of Colorectal Cancer
Source: Modern Pathology
ISSN: 1530-0285
Date and Year of
Publication: FEB 2016
Impact Factor: 6.364
Affiliated
Department(s): Pathology / Internal Medicine
Author(s): Jaudah Al-Maghrabi, Ashraf Dallol, Abdelbaset Buhmeida, Mahmoud Al-
Ahwal, Adel Abuzenadah
8
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Prevalence of Resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae Causing Meningitis in a
Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia
Source: International Journal of Science and Research
ISSN: 2319-7064
Date and Year of
Publication: SEPT 2016
Impact Factor: 6.391
Affiliated
Department(s): Internal Medicine
Author(s): Mazen Badawi
7
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Altered proportions of myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells in children with
inflammatory bowel disease
Source: Journal of Crohns & Colitis
ISSN: 1876-4479
Date and Year of
Publication: MAR 2016
Impact Factor: 6.585
Affiliated
Department(s): Pediatrics
Author(s): MF Elshal, AM Aldahlawi, OI Saadah, JP McCoy
6
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Risk Factors for Primary Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Illness in Humans, Saudi Arabia, 2014
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1080-6059
Date and Year of
Publication: JAN 2016
Impact Factor: 7.327
Affiliated
Department(s): Internal Medicine
Author(s):
Basem M Alraddadi, John T Watson, Abdulatif Almarashi, Glen R Abedi, Amal
Turkistani, Musallam Sadran, Abeer Housa, Mohammad A Almazroa, Naif
Alraihan, Ayman Banjar, Eman Albalawi, Hanan Alhindi, Abdul Jamil
Choudhry, Jonathan G Meiman, Magdalena Paczkowski, Aaron Curns, Anthony
Mounts, Daniel R Feikin, Nina Marano, David L Swerdlow, Susan I Gerber,
Rana Hajjeh, Tariq A Madani
5
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Change in presurgical diagnostic imaging evaluation affects subsequent
pediatric epilepsy surgery outcome (P3.242)
Source: Neurology
ISSN: 1526-632X
Date and Year of
Publication: APR 2016
Impact Factor: 8.303
Affiliated
Department(s): Pediatrics
Author(s): Luc Rubinger, Carol Chan, Felice D'Arco, Rahim Moineddin, Osama
Muthaffar, James Rutka, O Snead, Mary Lou Smith, Elysa Widjaja
4
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: A century of trends in adult human height
Source: ELIFE
ISSN: 2050-084X
Date and Year of
Publication: JUL 2016
Impact Factor: 8.519
Affiliated
Department(s): Clinical Biochemistry
Author(s): Bahijri, Suhad; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration
3
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Biallelic Mutations in TMTC3, Encoding a Transmembrane and TPR-Containing
Protein, Lead to Cobblestone Lissencephaly
Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics
ISSN: 0002-9297
Date and Year of
Publication: NOV 2016
Impact Factor: 10.987
Affiliated
Department(s):
Medical Genetics, Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in
Hereditary Disorders Research
Author(s):
Julie Jerber, Maha S Zaki, Jumana Y Al-Aama, Rasim Ozgur Rosti, Tawfeg
Ben-Omran, Esra Dikoglu, Jennifer L Silhavy, Caner Caglar, Damir Musaev,
Beate Albrecht, Kevin P Campbell, Tobias Willer, Mariam Almuriekhi, Ahmet
Okay Çağlayan, Jiri Vajsar, Kaya Bilgüvar, Gonul Ogur, Rami Abou Jamra,
Murat Günel, Joseph G Gleeson
2
Report Top 5 Research published in High-Ranking Impact Factor Journal
Research Title: Enhanced Recovery after Urological Surgery: A Contemporary Systematic
Review of Outcomes, Key Elements, and Research Needs
Source: EUROPEAN UROLOGY
ISSN: 0302-2838
Date and Year of
Publication: JUL 2016
Impact Factor: 12.480
Affiliated
Department(s): Urology
Author(s): Raed A Azhar, Bernard Bochner, James Catto, Alvin C Goh, John Kelly, Hiten D
Patel, Raj S Pruthi, George N Thalmann, Mihir Desai
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