King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) disclosed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranked first position globally in the annual growth rate of publication of scientific studies and research with percentage of 33.1% in 2012 in comparison to 2011, according to a report of Thomson and Reuters published by International Nature Magazine in December, 2012. This came in a report by KACST on the scientific and technological indexes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aiming to evaluate the national plan for science, technology and innovation in its first phase.