Indexes in scientometrics are based on citations. However, in contrast to the journal impact factor, which gives only the ranking of the scientific journals, ordered by impact factor, indexes in scientometrics are suitable for ranking of scientists, scientific journals and countries. In this paper the h-index, h5-index, the World ranking the top of 25 Highly Cited Researchers (h > 100) and the ...

The Korean Journal of Urology began to be published exclusively in English in 2010 and is indexed in PubMed Central/PubMed. This study analyzed a variety of citation indicators of the Korean Journal of Urology before and after 2010 to clarify the present position of the journal among the urology category journals. The impact factor, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), impact index, Z-impact factor (ZIF...

Background: This study made an attempt to make the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of hematological research output in five Islamic countries Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt which have the most scientific productions from 1996-2013. Materials and Methods: The current study was carried out during the 1st to 31st of September, 2014 in Blood Transfusion Research Center, Sh...

This paper investigates research specialisation of top ranked universities around the world. The revealed comparative advantage in different research fields are determined according to the number of research articles published. Subsequently, measures of research ubiquity and diversity, and research complexity index of each university, are obtained and discussed. The study is conducted on top-ra...

BACKGROUND The International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS) was launched in August 2007 and has recently been given a formal impact factor. This study uses bibliometric indicators to review the performance of the Journal against its original stated objectives and aspirations. METHODS All articles published in IJMHS since publication commenced were included (n = 158). Selected biblio...

The launching of Scopus and Google Scholar, and methodological developments in Social Network Analysis have made many more indicators for evaluating journals available than the traditional Impact Factor, Cited Half-life, and Immediacy Index of the ISI. In this study, these new indicators are compared with one another and with the older ones. Do the various indicators measure new dimensions of t...

The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the "quality" of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and the...

مقدمه:امروزه تعدد و کیفیت نامعلوم مجلات حیطه‏های مختلف علوم پزشکی، پژوهشگران را در انتخاب مجله مناسب برای انتشار نتایج تحقیقات علمی سردرگم کرده است. شاید معیارهای سنجش کیفیت مجلات بتوانند این مشکل را تا حدودی حل کنند؛ لذا مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی کیفیت مجلات حوزه‏ زنان و مامایی بر اساس شاخص‏های رتبه‏بندی مجلات در پایگاه‏های اطلاعاتی معتبر انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه به صورت توصیفی تحلیلی و به...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...