♦Corresponding Author: Mohammed Tarawneh, MD Ministry of Health, Amman, Jordan Tel/Fax: +96-266-565489 E mail: [email protected] Introduction Breast cancer in women is a major health burden worldwide. It is the most common cause of cancer among women in both developing and developed countries, and is Abstract Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Jordanian women, yet sur...

La obtención de )factor de impacto* (FI) por la revista Medicina Intensiva, supone un paso importante en el proceso de crecimiento y de reconocimiento de la misma y a través de ella, de expansión de nuestra especialidad. Cuando a mediados de 2006 se produjo el relevo en la dirección de Medicina Intensiva, todo el equipo editorial nos propusimos varios objetivos; uno de ellos fue considerado un ...

Bibliometrics are a set of methods, which can be used to analyze academic literature quantitatively and its changes over time. The objectives of this study were 1) to evaluate trends related to academic performance of dental journals from 2003 to 2012 using bibliometric indices, and 2) monitor the changes of the five dental journals with the highest and lowest impact factor (IF) published in 20...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Impact factors are currently the bibliometric index most used for evaluating scientific journals. However, the way in which they are used, for instance concerning the study or journal types analyzed, can markedly interfere with estimate reliability. This study aimed to analyze the citation distribution pattern in three Brazilian journals of general medicine. DESIGN AND S...

Researchers’ fame in most scientific fields is closely linked to their publishing capacity, both in terms of quantity and quality. In GIScience, as in other fields, this situation demands that the researcher evaluate and to be very familiar with the scientific journals in which they could publish. Some specialized journals (e.g. Journal of Citation Reports or JCR) are devoted to ranking these r...

Biomedical fields have seen a remarkable increase in hybrid Gold open access articles. However, it is uncertain whether the option contributes to citation advantage, an citations of articles made immediately available as regardless article’s quality or involves trending topic discussion. This study aimed compare counts subscription published journals. The ascertain if publications yield advanta...

The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Science Citation Index (SCI), published by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), provides a comprehensive database for analysis of journals. Recent use of JCR's journal impact factor for evaluation of journals and authors has provoked strongly mixed reactions among investigators. This paper examines the effects of the rapidly expanding literatu...