Despite its widespread acceptance in the scientific world, impact factor (IF) has been criticized recently on many accounts: including lack of quality assessment of the citations, influence of self citation, English language bias, etc. In the current study, we evaluated three indices of journal scientific impact: (IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), and SCImago Journal rank indicator (SJR) of nuclear ...

The article presents an overview of the most significant publications on topic male infertility. main selection criteria were practical significance article, as well impact factor journal in which it was published, according to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). As a result, list 10 works published from October 2022 March 2023 formed. review includes articles following topics: genetic causes infertili...

The article presents an overview of the most significant publications on topic male infertility. main selection criteria were practical significance article, as well impact factor journal in which it was published, according to SCImago Journal Rank. As a result, list 10 articles published IV quarter (October — December) 2021 compiled. review includes following topics: genetic causes infertility...

The last issue emphasized the changes taking place in the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH) and discussed the reasons that the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (ABHH) and her two sister societies decided to internationalize the journal.(1-3) It was pointed out that one of the primary reasons for this was the new Qualis classification by the Brazilian furth...

INTRODUCTION Concerns about reproducibility and impact of research urge improvement initiatives. Current university ranking systems evaluate and compare universities on measures of academic and research performance. Although often useful for marketing purposes, the value of ranking systems when examining quality and outcomes is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate usefulness of ra...

The purpose of this study is to test for the presence of order-effect bias in journal ranking surveys. Data were obtained from 379 active knowledge management and intellectual capital researchers who rated 25 journals on a 7-point scale. Five different versions of the survey instrument were utilized. Consistent with the cognitive elaboration model, the satisficing theory, and the Gricean maxim ...

In this study we present an application which can be accessed via www.excellence-networks.net and which represents networks of scientific institutions worldwide. The application is based on papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) published between 2007 and 2011. It uses (network) data, on which the SCImago Institutions Ranking is based (Scopus data from Elsevier). Using this data, inst...