Introduction: Citation analysis reflects the extent to which published work has been recognized in the scientific community. The purpose of this study was to characterize the most cited publications in travel medicine.Methods: Travel medicine articles indexed on Scopus which had been published in the English language through 2016 were retrieved independen...

In a growing interdisciplinary field like biomedical informatics, information dissemination and citation trends are changing rapidly due to many factors. To understand these factors better, we analyzed the evolution of the number of articles per major biomedical informatics topic, download/online view frequencies, and citation patterns (using Web of Science) for articles published from 2009 to ...

Journals in the " Information Science and Library Science " category of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were compared using both bibliometric and bibliographic features. Data collected covered: journal impact factor, number of issues per year, number of authors per paper, longevity, editorial board membership, frequency of publication, number of databases indexing the journal, number of aggregat...

6627 Background: Knowledge within oncology is disseminated primarily via peer-reviewed journals. The potential for dissemination of erroneous data exists, an issue that has not been explored in oncology. We evaluated errata from the Journal of Clinical Oncology and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published between 2004-2007. METHODS Two authors independently abstracted data regar...

Ranking of researchers based on their scientific impact in a community is indeed very crucial task. However, identifying the ranking helps various decisions such as awarding scholarships, selection for tenure, achievements, giving promotions, etc. In literature numerous parameters have been proposed researchers, publication count, citation coauthor h-index, and its extensions. The current state...