Journal Title Display and Citation Practices

Impact of citation practices: beyond journal impact factors.

Journal impact factors have taken center stage in the world of scientific publishing and have become increasingly important in the academic life of those who read and contribute to our journal. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to the impact factor and its controversial role as a metric for promotion, compensation, and research funding, the human forces driving the impact fact...

Citation and content analysis of Hormozgan Medical Journal

Introduction: One of the most important branches of scientometrics is citation analysis which offers patterns showing authors’ information searching behavior and authors’ authorship. Citation Analysis provides a pattern of authors’ Information-seeking behavior and also Content Analysis provides a pattern of authorship. This study aimed to analyze the citations and content of p...

Classification of scientific networks using aggregated journal-journal citation relations in the Journal Citation Reports

I propose an approach to classifying scientific networks in terms of aggregated journal-journal citation relations of the ISI Journal Citation Reports using the affinity propagation method. This algorithm is applied to obtain the classification of SCI and SSCI journals by minimizing intracategory journal-journal (J-J) distances in the database, where distance between journals is calculated from...

Memórias and the Journal Citation Reports

Editorial Memórias and the Journal Citation Reports We, as many other journal editors, have been looking at the recent release of the 2014 Journal Citation Reports by Thompson-Reuters. The results for the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz have again been gratifying; our two-year impact factor has increased to 1.592 while the Memórias is one of the few Latin American journals with a five-year i...

Journal Self-Citation VI: Forced Journal Self-Citation - Common, Appropriate, Ethical?