RE: The obstacles facing scientific and medical publishing in Saudi Arabia

Overcoming Obstacles Facing the Contractors Sector in Saudi Arabia Using a Rank Correlation Method

The contractors sector is considered to be one of the most important sectors in terms of its effects on economic development, stabilization, and urbanization. The main objective of this study was to explore and analyze the obstacles facing the contractors sector in Saudi Arabia from the contractors’ point of view using Spearman’s rank correlation method, where the dimensionality of ordinal data...

Challenges facing smokers in Saudi Arabia.

Issues and Obstacles in Disability Research in Saudi Arabia

Despite the growing awareness in the public, the health and education professionals about the economic, psychological and medical impact of disability, limited research has been carried out on disabilities in Saudi Arabia. This paper reviews the issues related to the progress of research on disabilities in Saudi Arabia and the deterrents that have limited its progress. INTRODUCTION Disability c...

ITcon - re - engineering the scientific publishing

he prevailing methods for publishing scientific research results are inefficient, slow and expensive. It usually takes between one to two years from the original submission of a manuscript to its final printing in an issue of a peer-reviewed journal. In addition publication as such is no guarantee that the information reaches its target readership. Fortunately recent developments in IT and comp...

Difficulties facing first-year medical students at Umm Alqura University in Saudi Arabia.

This study investigated medical students' study habits and perceptions of learning difficulties during their first year of study. A specially-designed questionnaire was answered by 165 second-year medical and medical science students at Umm Alqura University in Saudi Arabia. Out of the 7 difficulties listed in the questionnaire, students ranked peer competition first, followed by poor English l...