Introdução: A produção científica na área das Ciências Rígidas no Brasil é predominantemente publicada em periódicos internacionais, dessa forma compreensível que nacionais busquem relevância internacional a fim de atrair maior visibilidade e consequentemente garantir um número publicações. Tradicionalmente, as têm nos artigos seu canal preferencial para disseminação dos resultados pesquisa. En...

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....

The evaluation of journals based on their influence is of interest for numerous reasons. Various methods of computing a score have been proposed for measuring the scientific influence of scholarly journals. Typically the computation of any of these scores involves compiling the citation information pertaining to the journal under consideration. This involves significant overhead since the artic...

background and objective: since it is essential for the research policy makers to acquire knowledge about the global ranks of their countries in in pathology and forensic medicine subject areas, scientometrics experts have been always ranking and analyzing countries on the basis of ‘total number of papers’, ‘total number of citations’ and ‘citations per paper’, etc. materials and methods: the ...

The evaluation of journals based on their influence is of interest for numerous reasons. Various methods of computing a score have been proposed for measuring the scientific influence of scholarly journals. Typically the computation of any of these scores involves compiling the citation information pertaining to the journal under consideration. This involves significant overhead since the artic...

One of the main consequences neoliberalization scientific life is growing demand for measurement and comparability achievements, not only by academia but also society as a financier economy customer. Thus, more attention being paid to journal rankings created prestigious (and generally Anglo-Saxon-dominated) reference databases (Web Science or Scimago) that make this possible. They play key rol...

There are now many methods available to assess the relative citation performance of peer-reviewed journals. Regardless of their individual faults and advantages, citation-based metrics are used by researchers to maximize the citation potential of their articles, and by employers to rank academic track records. The absolute value of any particular index is arguably meaningless unless compared to...