To assess the state of Arab astronomy research, I used the Thomson Reuters Web of Science to extract publication data for astronomy and astrophysics papers for each Arab country from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2009. For comparison, I collected similar data for authors from Turkey, Iran, Israel and South Africa. Because there were few papers for Arab countries, I examined them by hand and discarded ones on tangential and highly theoretical topics. The comparison countries had a greater number of papers, so I examined a random sample of 200 papers from each country and scaled the totals accordingly. For Arab countries, 40-50% of papers were excluded (reflecting the emphasis on theoretical work); for Iran, the percentage was 78%; for Israel, 25%; and for South Africa, 19%.
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机译：为了评估阿拉伯天文学的研究状况，我使用了汤姆森路透社的Web of Science来提取2000年1月1日至2009年12月31日每个阿拉伯国家的天文学和天体物理学论文的出版数据。为了进行比较，我为土耳其的作者收集了类似的数据，伊朗，以色列和南非。因为针对阿拉伯国家的论文很少，所以我手工检查了它们，而舍弃了切向和高度理论性的论文。比较国家/地区的论文数量较多，因此我检查了每个国家/地区的200篇论文的随机样本，并据此对总数进行了缩放。对于阿拉伯国家，有40％至50％的论文被排除在外（反映了对理论工作的重视）；在伊朗，这一比例为78％；以色列为25％；南非为19％。
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