INTRODUCTION Vision Science is considered to be a quite developed discipline in Nepal, with much research currently in progress. Though the results of these endeavors are published in scientific journals, formal citation analyses have not been performed on works contributed by Nepalese vision scientists. OBJECTIVE To study Nepal's contribution to vision science literature in the database "Web...

Employing an institutionalist perspective, this article aims to explore the implementation of global model international journal in Ukraine. Focusing on selected journals natural sciences, engineering, clinical medicine & biomedical and social following aspects were determined: publication language, national distribution authors citations, institutional authors. An Index National Orientation Pu...

In November 2012 the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM) journal rankings were updated, making it possible to compare bibliometric indicators in the 10 languages indexed – and their stability – with the April 2012 version. The h-index and h-5 median of 1,000 journals were analysed, comparing their averages, maximum and minimum values and the correlation coefficient within rankings. The bibliometric fi...

Objective:. This literature review aims to determine herbal medicines in healing and preventing infection Sectio Caesarea wounds. Method : a Review method that synthesizes studies by identifying, analyzing, evaluating data from previous studies. Result: There were 27 indexed reputable journals, including 17 international journals nine national journals. The results of the analysis showed presen...

To qualify in world top universities rankings, various incentives have been provided by private Malaysia to improve one of the quantifiable performance indicators: imparting, sharing and transferring knowledge through research publication which, however, is still embryonic stage. develop effective tactical strategies, full version Theory Planned Behaviour (TPB) including salient beliefs that ca...

We study the statistics of citations made to the indexed Science journals in the Journal Citation Reports during the period 2004-2013 using different measures. We consider different measures which quantify the impact of the journals. To our surprise, we find that the apparently uncorrelated measures, even when defined in an arbitrary manner, show strong correlations. This is checked over all th...

Cardiology has been and is a very significant fraction of the Brazilian contribution to science. In older days, the most significant part of this work was directed to foreign periodicals, but the quasi-simultaneous emergence of SciELO and PUBMED has ordained a redirection of much of this work to Brazilian periodicals. We here survey some of this more recent contribution for the benefit of reade...

OBJECTIVES To study the role assumed by epidemiology in occupational health literature and characterise its change over the years. METHODS A bibliometric study was conducted with a MEDLINE search to evaluate 9024 articles published in eight representative occupational health journals for the period 1980-93. Articles related to epidemiology were found by descriptors indexed in the articles and...

BACKGROUND AND AIM This study was performed to evaluate the impact factors (IFs) and total citations of ISI-indexed nutrition journals in a 10-year period from 1999 to 2008 in order to assess the quality of nutrition journals. MATERIALS AND METHODS For this retrospective study, the IF and total citation data from 1998 to 2008 were collected through Journal Citation Reports of Thomson Scientif...

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) DOI 10.1080/17453674.2017.1387731 The Open Access system is abused by an explosively increasing number of so-called predatory journ...