Maghreb’s Scientific Output Dwarfs South Africa’s

Maghreb countries scientific journal output is so insignificant that it is actually less than South Africa’s. According to Scimago Journal & Country Rank, the combined output of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania is still smaller than South Africa’s. The latter produced 342060 documents in the years 1996 to 2020.

In the first spot from the region comes Tunisia which produced 104541 documents, followed by Algeria (84192), and Morocco (83349), Libya (7085), and last Maurtiania (870).

Country	Documents	Citable documents	Citations	Self-Citations	Citations per Document	H index
Tunisia	104541	9860	1027585	195274	9.83	214
Algeria	84192	80961	725764	146594	8.62	202
Morocco	83349	77388	794014	154494	9.53	222
Libya	7085	6738	74796	3207	10.56	85
Mauritania	870	800	10367	719	11.92	47