Journal quality metrics (also referred to as bibliometrics), such as impact factors, are increasingly being used as a measure of researchers' and educators' success and prestige. Occupational therapists who submit articles to peer-reviewed journals may face a professional and research dilemma: Do they submit their articles to journals that largely have a professional audience and potentially do...

OBJECTIVES To perform an extensive analysis of journals in Medicine III - CAPES, and specifically those in the areas of Otorhinolaryngology, Orthopedics and Traumatology and Chest Surgery. METHOD An active search for the impact factors in the Journal Citation Reports, Scimago, their indexation in Scielo, Lilacs, Scopus and Google Scholar, and their stratification in WebQualis was done. RESU...

The study documents the growth in the number of journals and articles along with the increase in normalized citation rates of open access (OA) journals listed in the Scopus bibliographic database between 1999 and 2010. Longitudinal statistics on growth in journals/articles and citation rates are broken down by funding model, discipline, and whether the journal was launched or had converted to O...

This study investigates relationship between the journal ranking lists reported in previous studies on IS journal quality and the rankings derived based on citation data. Journals are categorized into pure, hybrid, partial, and non-IS journals. A total of 8,023 articles published in 38 journals are analyzed and 27,567 citations made to these articles are collected. Five citation-based indices a...

BACKGROUND In the greater framework of the essential functions of Public Health, our focus is on a systematic, objective, external evaluation of Latin American scientific output, to compare its publications in the area of Public Health with those of other major geographic zones. We aim to describe the regional distribution of output in Public Health, and the level of visibility and specializati...

BACKGROUND Impact Factor (IF) as a major journal quality indicator has a series of shortcomings including effect of self-citation, review articles, total number of articles, etc. In this study, we compared 4 journals quality indices ((IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), Article Influence Score (AIS) and SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR)) in the specific Pediatric Neurology journals. METHODS All I...

In this paper, we provide a bibliometric overview of publications in economics by authors with affiliations from Serbia. We use the Web Science database, analyse all articles published 1996 onwards, and an publications, journals targeted, trends, effects collaboration. identify main topics interest papers. To do this, bibliographic mapping most common terms used titles abstracts papers, grouped...

MOTIVATION The growing availability of full-text scientific articles raises the important issue of how to most efficiently digest full-text content. Although article titles and abstracts provide accurate and concise information on an article's contents, their brevity inevitably entails the loss of detail. Full-text articles provide those details, but require more time to read. The primary goal ...

Neste trabalho, procuramos conhecer as formas que a escrita científica da ciência portuguesa, nomeadamente das ciências sociais e psicológicas, assumem em termos de grandes bases dados internacionais. Para isso, pesquisámos produção tendo como principais instrumentos PorData; Scimago; Scopus; Web of Science Journal Citation Report. Interessou-nos saber quais unidades contagem do impacto; forma ...