Distribution of academic publications in the GCC region 2018, by subject
In 2018, the share of academic publications in the Engineering discipline in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region amounted to 12.3 percent. In the same year, the research focus in Saudi Arabia tended to shift towards engineering while energy was an increasingly popular research area in the United Arab Emirates. The six priority fields of the the Saudi Research and Development office for the international research and collaboration were water, energy, information technology, petrochemicals, life sciences, health and the environment.