ArticleSultan Qaboos University medical journal2022
Productivity of Clinical Trials Conducted in the Gulf Cooperative Council Region.
Article in Sultan Qaboos University medical journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06531616 (Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours Toward Clinical Research in the United Arab Emirates), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours Toward Clinical Research in the United Arab Emirates
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical trials in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a ten-year landscape analysis.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Barriers and opportunities for clinical trials in Bahrain: a qualitative study of key opinion leaders.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Mapping Health Research Involving Human Subjects in Saudi Arabia:Saudi medical journal · 2026Article
- An evaluation of pharmaceutical clinical trials from Saudi Arabia registered on Clinicaltrials.gov: A cross-sectional study.Saudi medical journal · 2025Article
- Views from Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies on Allocation of Clinical Trials in Saudi Arabia-Qualitative Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Oncology Early-Phase Clinical Trials in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review of the Current Status, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions.Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the productivity of clinical trials in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, including Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait and to address the existing research gap. Specifically, this paper aimed to estimate the number of clinical trials conducted and estimate the proportion of clinical trials conducted in the GCC countries published in peer-reviewed journals. Methods: The clinical trials registry of the US National Library of Medicine was searched for clinical trials conducted from January 2000 to October 2019. The productivity was assessed by the publication status of the trials in the registry and through the search in MEDLINE indexed journals. Results: A total of 682 trials were found from the GCC region, with an overall trend of 4.1 trials each year. However, the clinical trial productivity from the region contributes to only 0.37% of the trials globally. When comparing the raw data, Saudi Arabia showed the highest proportion, contributing 66.6% of the clinical trials from the region ( Conclusion: Saudi Arabia is the leading country in clinical trial productivity in the GCC region. Countries in the GCC should utilise the triple helix model to form partnerships with the industry and improve their contributions to science.
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