# Saudi Urological Association

> organisation involved in scholarly research

**Wikidata**: [Q74542738](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74542738)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/saudi-urological-association

## Summary
Saudi Urological Association is an organization involved in scholarly research classified as a research institute. It is catalogued in several authority and bibliographic systems (including VIAF and Medvik) and is associated with the journal Urology Annals.

## Key Facts
- Classified as an instance of a research institute; linked to the journal "Urology Annals" as a qualifier.  
- Described on Wikidata as an "organisation involved in scholarly research."
- Country value in the available structured data: India.  
- VIAF identifier: 141124417 (VIAF record referenced 2020-06-01).  
- Medvik identifier: xx0100016.  
- National Library/authority control (nl_cr_aut_id): xx0100016, recorded with the label "Saudi Urological Association" (reference date 2020-02-08).  
- Authority and reference records for the entity include citations to cataloging sources (e.g., references with identifiers Q54919, Q1227538, Q13550863 in the structured data).

## FAQs
### Q: What is the Saudi Urological Association?
A: It is an organization described as being involved in scholarly research and classified as a research institute. It is associated in the structured data with the journal Urology Annals.

### Q: Where is the Saudi Urological Association listed as being based?
A: In the provided structured properties the country value is recorded as India.

### Q: What identifiers and catalog entries exist for this association?
A: The association appears in authority and bibliographic systems with VIAF id 141124417, Medvik id xx0100016, and a national authority id xx0100016 (nl_cr_aut_id) recorded under the label "Saudi Urological Association."

### Q: Is the Saudi Urological Association linked to any publication?
A: Yes — the structured data lists a qualifier linking its instance_of (research institute) to the journal "Urology Annals."

## Why It Matters
The Saudi Urological Association is recorded as an organization engaged in scholarly research and is formally classified as a research institute. Its presence in library and authority systems (VIAF, Medvik, national authority records) indicates it participates in the formal scholarly and bibliographic ecosystem, enabling consistent cataloguing, citation, and discovery across databases and libraries. The explicit link to the journal Urology Annals suggests a relationship to scholarly publishing in urology, which helps connect the association to academic literature in the field. For researchers, librarians, and indexers, these authoritative identifiers and catalog entries make the entity discoverable and disambiguated in bibliographic records, which supports scholarly communication and proper attribution in the urology research domain.

## Notable For
- Explicitly classified as a research institute in structured data and described as an organisation involved in scholarly research.
- Association or qualifier linking it to the journal "Urology Annals."
- Presence in multiple authority/catalog systems: VIAF (141124417) and Medvik (xx0100016).
- National authority record (nl_cr_aut_id xx0100016) recorded with the label "Saudi Urological Association" (reference dated 2020-02-08).

## Body
### Classification
- Instance of: research institute.
- Qualifier for instance_of: linked to "Urology Annals" (property P2210 in the structured data).

### Description
- Wikidata description: "organisation involved in scholarly research."

### Geographic/Administrative Data
- Country value present in the structured properties: India (reference entry P887: Q69652283).

### Identifiers and Cataloguing
- VIAF id: 141124417.  
  - Reference metadata includes P248: Q54919 and a timestamp reference P813: 2020-06-01 associated with the VIAF entry.
- Medvik id: xx0100016.
- nl_cr_aut_id: xx0100016 with qualifier label "Saudi Urological Association."  
  - Reference metadata includes P248: Q13550863 and P813: 2020-02-08.

### Publication Linkage
- The structured data records a qualifier connecting the research-institute classification to the journal "Urology Annals" (property P2210), indicating an asserted association with that publication in the cited references.

### References in Structured Data
- Instance_of / publication qualifier reference: P248: Q1227538 with URL reference to a contributors page (http://www.urologyannals.com/contributors.asp#EP) noted in the structured properties.
- Authority record references include entries noted by Q-identifiers in the provided structured data (Q54919, Q1227538, Q13550863).

## References

1. [Directory of Open Access Journals](http://www.urologyannals.com/contributors.asp#EP)
2. Virtual International Authority File
3. Czech National Authority Database