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Research institutions in Jordan is the library's country listing for Jordan. It brings together the Jordanian universities, laboratories, companies and other bodies whose researchers have contributed to more than one of the papers held on this site. An organisation with only a single paper here does not appear. The listing belongs to the library's wider directory of organisations of all kinds, which collects institutions and groups them by country. The listing orders its members by the citations earned by work their scientists produced at each institution, so it measures cited work rather than size, staff or teaching.

Every institution on the Jordan listing is a university. No research laboratory, hospital, company or government agency in the country currently passes the inclusion rule on this site. The universities sit in three cities: Amman, Irbid and Zarqa. Jordanian research is therefore represented here entirely through the university sector, spread across the capital, its neighbouring city to the north-east and a city further north.

The listing should be read with its scope in mind. It describes how Jordanian research shows up among the papers in this library. It does not describe the full scale, range or quality of research in Jordan as a whole, and it does not claim to. A university that publishes widely but has few papers in our library will look small here. A university with a handful of much-cited papers here will look large.

Institutions and where they are

The University of Jordan appears first on the listing. It is based in Amman, the capital. On this site it has a small set of works that have drawn a modest level of citation. That body of work is enough to place it among the Jordanian institutions the library tracks. It is not the largest contribution among them, either by works or by citations. Its page in the library is the place to see which papers these are and which units of the university produced them.

The Jordan University of Science and Technology comes next. It is located in Irbid, in the north of the country, and it is the only listed institution outside the Amman and Zarqa area. On this site it has more works than any other Jordanian university. Its works have also been cited far more often than those of the other universities put together. Its share of citations is large enough that, in the library's terms, most of the cited research attributed to Jordan comes from this one university. Anyone studying Jordanian research as this library shows it will find that this university's page holds most of the material.

The Princess Sumaya University for Technology is also in Amman. It has the smallest set of works among the Jordanian universities, just enough to meet the inclusion rule. Even so, those works have been cited at a level close to that of the University of Jordan. Its presence here rests on a few papers that have attracted steady attention, not on a large number of papers.

The Hashemite University is in Zarqa, close to Amman. It has a few works in our library, more than Princess Sumaya University for Technology, but those works have gathered the fewest citations of the Jordanian universities listed. Its record here points to work that has entered the library but has so far been cited less than the work of its counterparts.

How the institutions compare

Set side by side, the universities show a clear imbalance. Jordan University of Science and Technology holds most of both the works and the citations credited to Jordan on this site. Each of the other three contributes a small set of papers, and their combined citations are a small fraction of the Irbid university's total. For a reader, this means that any general statement about cited Jordanian research in this library is largely a statement about one institution.

Among the three smaller contributors the pattern is more mixed. The University of Jordan and Princess Sumaya University for Technology have similar citation levels, although the University of Jordan has more works. On average, then, a paper from Princess Sumaya University for Technology on this site has been cited somewhat more often than one from the University of Jordan. The Hashemite University has more works than Princess Sumaya University for Technology but fewer citations, so its papers here have on average drawn the least citation of the group.

These comparisons rest on small numbers of papers for three of the institutions. A single new paper, or a single much-cited one, could shift their relative positions. Only Jordan University of Science and Technology has a body of work in our library large enough that its lead is unlikely to change quickly.

The geography adds a further contrast. Most of the listed universities are in or near the capital: two are in Amman and one is in nearby Zarqa. By citations, however, the centre of gravity of Jordanian research on this site lies in Irbid. The capital region supplies most of the institutions. The northern city supplies most of the cited work.

Research strengths

The country listing does not break Jordanian research down by field or topic, and it does not name individual papers. Any account of subject strengths therefore has to come from the university pages rather than from the country view.

The names of the institutions offer only a loose hint. Two of the universities present themselves by name as institutions of science and technology: Jordan University of Science and Technology and Princess Sumaya University for Technology. Since the first of these holds most of the cited Jordanian work here, scientific and technical research may well make up much of what the library shows for the country. The listing does not confirm which disciplines are involved, and a university's name is no reliable guide to the subjects of the particular papers this library holds. The University of Jordan and the Hashemite University carry general names that say nothing about their research fields.

Readers who want to know what Jordanian researchers on this site actually work on should open the individual university pages. Each one lists that institution's works with their citations, the topics they cover and the units within the university where the research was done. That is where the subject profile of Jordanian research in this library can be traced.

Leading scientists

The country listing deals with institutions, not individuals, so it names no scientists. It does not show who wrote the most cited Jordanian papers in our library or which researchers at each university are most active here. Where the library records the people behind an institution's work, they appear on that university's own page in the order the library gives them. For Jordan University of Science and Technology in particular, its page is the natural starting point for finding the researchers behind most of the country's cited work in the library.

Landmark works

The listing gives citation totals for each university but does not identify individual papers or say which works account for those totals. It cannot show whether Jordan University of Science and Technology's large share of citations comes from many moderately cited papers or from a few much-cited ones. The same question applies, on a smaller scale, to the other universities. The works themselves, with their citations, are listed on the individual university pages.

Collaborations

The country view does not show co-authorship. It does not reveal whether researchers at the different Jordanian universities have written papers together, or whether they have worked with institutions in other countries. Where shared papers exist, the same work may be credited to more than one university, and the university pages are where such links can be followed. Any account of Jordan's research partnerships, at home or abroad, has to begin there rather than at the country level.

Over time

The listing gives no years for the works it summarises. It cannot show when Jordanian research first entered the library, whether output from the universities has grown, held steady or shifted, or whether the lead of Jordan University of Science and Technology is long-standing or recent. The listing reflects the library as it stands now.

That picture can change as the library grows. New papers by Jordanian researchers could bring in institutions that currently have only one paper here, whether further universities, research laboratories, hospitals or companies. New papers and new citations could also change the order of the universities already listed and narrow or widen the gap between the Irbid university and the rest.

Using this listing

The Jordan listing works best as a map rather than a full account. It shows which Jordanian institutions have a recurring presence among the papers in our library, where they are located and how much the work done at each one has been cited. Its main finding is simple. Cited Jordanian research in this library comes mostly from Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, with smaller contributions from the University of Jordan and Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman and from the Hashemite University in Zarqa.

For the questions the country view cannot answer, the university pages are the places to look. These include which fields the research covers, which papers stand out, who the researchers are, with whom they work and how their output has developed over the years. Read together, those pages give the fuller picture of Jordanian research as this library holds it.