(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Qatar-based research has played a prominent role in the global development of the field of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, finds an article published by scholars at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner and Qatar National Library (QNL). The article appears in the 10th anniversary edition of the top journal in the field, the Journal of Arabian Studies. It offers the first-ever comprehensive survey of the global development of this field, charting its scholarly societies, centres, projects, publications, conference series, and graduate programmes since the mid-19th century. The authors show that the field of Gulf studies has experienced a meteoric rise, especially in the last decade.