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The study is perceived to find the research performance of Jordanian Institutes during the last five years in scopus database. Jordan has produced a total of 14722 research articles published in national and international journals during 2015 to 2019 with a continuous gradual increase both in publications as well as in citations. The public and older universities have performed better as compared to the private and newly established universities. Although, the major chunk of articles has been published in national journals however, as far as the citations are concerned, the international journals have taken a lead. A total of 4767 journals have been used for publications, however, 227 have been identified as the core collection journals. The non local journals with high impact factor and citescore have got the maximum citations, although very less no. of articles have been published by Jordanian researchers. The medicine, engineering, computer science, mathematics, etc. are the top contributing subjects while as the finance, economics, neuroscience, veterinary, and decision sciences are weaker subjects. The keywords analysis also reflects the strong hold of medicine and health researches in the country. The Lancet has been identified as the top cited journal followed by New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Neurology, IEEE Access, JAMA Oncology and the less cited journal were International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jordan Journal of Physics, International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research. Khader YS with 195 articles, Alzoubi KH with 143 articles and Khabour OF with 106 articles all from the Jordan University of Science and Technology are the top authors in Jordan. A total of 2208 articles are written by single authors and 12514 by multiple authors with a highly skewed correlation been identified between the authors and the no. of authors with 27979 authors contributing only single publication while as 195 articles have been published by only one author. The United States followed by Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom has been identified as the top collaborated countries of Jordan and the countries like Tajikistan, Solomon Islands and Cambodia are weakly collaborated. It is found that the highly cited articles are published in the Lancet Journal and with more collaboration of authors more citations have been identified. The top ranked articles in terms of citations have been published by the highly collaborated authors. The Jordanian researchers are citing mostly the newer research which may be related with the stronger areas of knowledge like medicine, computer sciences, engineering as per the Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses role of exponential growth of mobile computing and wireless networks and protocols in educational institutions at the forefront of changing global village of 21st century. It mentions Internet service provision has become a critical factor for undergraduate students research activities especially in Nigeria; and also mentions increased use of internet services for research in academic institutions.

Scientometric is branch of Science. Scientometric explain about input and output resources in term of organisational structure. Scientometric is the Science of measuring and analyzing Science. Modern Scientometric is mostly based on the work of Derek J.de Solla Price and Eugene Garfield. A scientometric assessment of the Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences (JKSU-CIS) 2004-2014 has been conducted. The study explains on the various aspects of the Journal, such as its distribution of article by year, authorship patterns, authors' degree of collaboration, authorship productivity pattern, distribution of citations by bibliographical forms, subject distributions, citation patterns, rank of cited authors, and geographical distributions of authors. This paper also highlighted institution by distributions and application of Bradford's law of scattering. The results of this study provide a better understanding of patterns, trends and other important factors as a basis for directing research activities, sharing knowledge and collaborating in the area of computers science research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]