introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...

Much of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is non-scientific, violating many well established principles of physics and relying on anecdotal evidence of little scientific merit. In particular, no scientific basis exists for the notion of special vital forces or energy fields associated with living organisms. Medical journals should follow the lead of most scientific journals and not publish...

Nowadays impact factor is the significant indicator for journal evaluation. In impact factor’s calculation is used number of all citations to journal, regardless of the prestige of cited journals, however, scientific units (paper, researcher, journal or scientific organization) cited by journals with high impact factor or researchers with high Hirsch index are more important than objects cited ...

BACKGROUND Scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. The present study investigates the status of Iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 163 Iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commi...

Citation study is now considered as one of the au then tic tools for selection of scientific periodicals. However, ranking journals by traditional method of citation counting is not free from limitations. The paper shows ways and means to eliminate these pitfalls by application of three new bibliometric parameters introduced by Sengupta earlier. It is stressed that these new parameters are capa...