Features and characteristics of the social sciences journals indexed in Arab databases

The study aims to identify the emergence and development of Arab databases (Al-Manhal, Dar Al-Mandumah, and e-Marefa), introducing the social science journals indexed in Arab databases. The study deals with the Journals Indexed in the field of social sciences in the Arabic databases (Al-Manhal, Dar Al-Mandumah, and e-Marefa), focusing on the articles they contain and excluding the editorials, books and theses review, reports...etc, in Arabic, English and French languages for social science journals, which included articles from 2014 to 2018 from around the world. By relying on the bibliographical method. The place of birth of the three Arab databases had no effect on the Journals that indexed any of them, but rather were linked to a large extent with the countries most interested and most productive of social science Journals, The number of journals and the number of articles indexed in them in the three databases in the social sciences sectors varied from 2014 to 2018, In Al-Manhal database, the economy sector has the largest share of journals and articles indexed in them with 82 journals containing 8702 articles, while in Dar Al-Mandumah the law sector has the largest share of journals with 141 journal containing 12681 articles, While the education sector has the largest share in the number of indexed articles, with 25,381 articles, while in e-Marefa database the economy sector has the largest share of journals and articles indexed in them, with 77 journals containing 11,107 articles, The sociology sector was the least in number in the number of journals and articles indexed in the three databases, and the linguistic coverage was limited to Arabic, English and French, and the Arabic language had the largest share of articles in the three databases. and the study recommends that libraries should benefit from the results of this study when comparing between the three Arab databases and choosing the appropriate ones in proportion to their budgets.