Abstract Introduction Bibliometrics enable the objective assessment of a journals quality and prestige, making them vital to academic surgical integrity. This paper systematically reviews evidence for current journal-ranking platforms. Method An initial systematic search identified published journal bibliometrics on 5th November 2019. Studies assessing were through second OVID Medline database ...

81 Editorial I welcome you to this second issue for the year 2011 comprising very interesting articles to read. We are proud to inform about the inclusion of our journal in SCImago Journal Ranking [SJR] recently. SJR is one of the two major journal rating systems that exist in the world: the Journal of (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares). It is named after the SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR) d...

University rankings generally present users with the problem of placing the results given for an institution in context. Only a comparison with the performance of all other institutions makes it possible to say exactly where an institution stands. In order to interpret the results of the SCImago Institutions Ranking (based on Scopus data) and the Leiden Ranking (based on Web of Science data), i...

Residents are crucial stakeholders in tourism development and their perceptions towards this activity have been studied since the 1970s. Since then, studies area expanded considerably, including review papers. The purpose of paper is to evaluate evolution explore critically methodologies applied about residents´ between 1978 2019 published ten most impactful journals according Scimago Journal R...

Indexed in Elsevier Bibliographic Database (Scopus and EMBASE) SCImago Journal Rank 0.129 Impact factor 0.67* Rapid and Easy Publishing The “International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences” (IJPBS) is an international journal in English published quarterly. The aim of IJPBS is to publish peer reviewed research and review articles rapidly without delay in the developing field of pharmaceutical ...

As we approach a new period of evaluation of Brazilian Graduate Programs by the Ministry of Education, it seems appropriate to revisit the rating systems for scientific journals. According to the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, there are about 300,000 scientific periodicals in the world today. However, 270,000 of these are not subject to the process of peer review, meaning that only 30,000 jour...

Indexed in Elsevier Bibliographic Database (Scopus and EMBASE) SCImago Journal Rank 0.129 Impact factor 2.958* Rapid and Easy Publishing The “International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences” (IJPBS) is an international journal in English published quarterly. The aim of IJPBS is to publish peer reviewed research and review articles rapidly without delay in the developing field of pharmaceutical...

Abstract In this work, we investigate existing citation practices by analysing a huge set of articles published in journals to measure which metadata are used across the various scholarly disciplines, independently from particular style adopted, for defining bibliographic reference. We selected most cited each 27 subject areas listed SCImago Journal Rank 2015–2017 triennium according total cite...

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine (KJIM) is the international journal published in English by the Korean Association of Internal Medicine. To understand the position of the journal in three different databases, the citation indicators were elucidated. From databases such as Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI), Web of Science, and Scopus, citation indicators such as the impact factor, SC...