core dental journals according to production and citation rates dr. sdj. ghazi mirsaeid * *assistant professor of medical library and information sciences dept., faculty of allied medical sciences and dental research center, tehran university / medical sciences. abstract background and aim: given the rapid expansion of dental journals in one hand, and limitation of resources on the other, it ma...

In this paper we propose two new indexes to quantify the citation status of papers and authors. The Percentile Rank Index (PRI) indicates the citation rank of the author’s individual papers among the papers published in the same year and source (journal or multi-authored monograph or book.) PRI is independent of the paper’s age, specialty, or source journal size. The Author’s Superiority Index ...

background: citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard for rating researchers and viability of a field. hence, stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve performance metric index. meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific publications. yet, there is relativ...