Arabic journals' literature about Sinai : a bibliometric study

Abstract

The study deals with the topic of Sinai in literature in the Arabic language in Arab journals in the period from 1900 to 2012, in order to identify the objective and qualitative diversity of articles about Sinai, with the aim of revealing the areas of strength and weakness in this production in order to benefit from the strengths and work on the areas of weakness to strengthen them.

The study relied on the descriptive analytical method for its suitability to this type of study. The paper collection of the literature of articles in Arabic about Sinai was done and a bibliography of this production was created, to facilitate dealing with it, by analyzing this production using paper measurement methods such as: Bradford’s Law of Dispersion. This production was distributed objectively, qualitatively, temporally, and geographically to study its growth and development. The study concluded with several results, including that the number of focal journals reached six magazines representing various subject areas, politics represented the basic objective orientation for half of the total of these journals, and that the decade of the seventies represented the most productive period in terms of the number Articles accounted for more than a quarter of the total production.