The letter-to-the-editor by S. Grazio, B. Anić, F. Grubišić, published in this CMJ issue highlights the importance of ethical editorial policies for non-English journals. There are still numerous local and regional journals which opt to publish their articles in local languages with English abstracts. Readers of such journals are in dire need of articles presenting new knowledge and progress in...

since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including isi web of science and scopus. this was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for iranian editors and authors. it al...

We have investigated the citation impact of four pairs of journals in four subject categories including the category of multidisciplinary journals, journals in environmental sciences, applied mathematics, as well as metallurgy and metallurgical engineering. Each pair is composed of one Chinese journal and one leading international journal in the same subject category. Comparison is done between...

Background and aim There is a competition between scientific journals in order to achieve leadership in their scientific field. There are several Romanian biomedical journals which are published in English and a smaller number in Romanian. We need a periodical analysis of their visibility and ranking according to scientometric measures. Methods We searched all biomedical journals indexed on i...

72 1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : by providing a picture from published articles in a field, bibliometric studies can inform policy-makers in their challenging research funding decisions. in this regard, we applied bibliometric analysis to the iranian pediatrics articles published in pubmed indexed journals between 1975 and 2007. methods : we evaluated all p...

The networking ability of journals reflects their academic influence among peer journals. This paper analyzes the cited and citing environments of the journal---Advances in Atmospheric Sciences---using methods from social network analysis. The journal has been actively participating in the international journal environment, but one has a tendency to cite papers published in international journa...