Impact of Impact Factor, Publication Audit and the importance of Citations
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Thompson Reuters of United States releases its Journal Citation Report (JCR) every year covering journals with Impact Factor. The JCR for the Year 2016 was released on June 13th 2016 which covered more than eleven thousand journals from eighty one countries which received their Impact Factor. This year the JCR also includes twelve journals from Pakistan including three biomedical journals. In the Year 2011 only seven journals from Pakistan including two biomedical journals were part of JCR. Hence, there has been an increase in the number of journals as regards Indexation in ISI. 1 The medical periodicals covered in 2016 JCR are Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA), Journal of College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan (JCPSP) and Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. (Pak J Med Sci). For us it was heartening to note that our Impact Factor had gained more than 100% increase from 0.231 in 2015 to 0.544 in 2016. As such Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences also emerged as the biomedical journal from Pakistan with the highest Impact Factor. 2-3 Table-I. As regards the number of
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