Statistics hide impact of non-English journals

Impact factor trends for general medical journals: non-English-language journals are lacking behind.

BACKGROUND The impact factor (IF) is a common citation metric used for evaluating and comparing scientific journals within a certain field. Previous studies have shown that IFs are increasing. However, rates may depend on journal publication language. The aim of this study was to determine IF values and trends for general medical journals, comparing non-English-language with English-language jo...

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

A Review of Statistics and Probability Journals in ISI Database

As in recent years the scientific productivity about ISI database and other related database have been increased, it is eligible for researchers of Statistics in Iran to know more about these journals and their statues in ISI database. In this study with the use of bibliometric methods, we have reviewed the status of Statistics and Probability . From all nations around the world, these are only...

Statistics in three biomedical journals.

In this paper we analyze the use of statistics and associated problems, in three Czech biological journals in the year 2000. We investigated 23 articles Folia Biologica, 60 articles in Folia Microbiologica, and 88 articles in Physiological Research. The highest frequency of publications with statistical content have used descriptive statistics and t-test. The most usual mistake concerns the abs...

statistics in international medical journals of iran

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