Google Trends is a Google search analysis service for different regions and languages; the service allows simultaneous comparison of up to 5 terms or topics. Results are sorted according to geographical areas over a time series. The “Trends” can be used to monitor and analyze people’s medical complaints, interests, and awareness. If you doubt...
Biomedical research in the Arab World is in deep crisis. As previously discussed in another article, the causes and aspects of this crisis are multi-dimensional. A clear, comprehensive understanding of these causes and an appropriate description of these aspects is essential to find a path towards a solution. As a biomedical researcher, what do...
Clinical trial registration is one of the essential steps in the process of research planning and design. Clinical trial registries were found to reduce the publication bias related to clinical research. The WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform was established to search within the clinical trial registries included in the WHO Registry Network. This...
In almost all basic and clinical specialties, and despite the notable gap between research output in high and low-income Arab countries in some research fields (Sibai et al., 2017), the research output of the Arab World lags far behind other regions (Bayoumy et al., 2016; Zyoud, 2016). It would help if you learned that...
A nation’s wealth is the most independent factor related to the quantity and quality of its research output. However, the relation is not always straightforward. Many wealthy countries don’t produce the expected research output in comparison to other less fortunate ones. This phenomenon raises attention towards the non-financial factors related to biomedical research and...
The Pan-Arab American Biomedical Research Association (PABRA) is a non-profit organization established in June, 2020 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. PABRA seeks to encourage cooperation and collaboration between overseas Arab researchers in the United States and other world countries and their counterparts at their homelands in different Arab countries. To achieve this target, the...
