OBJECTIVE Inadvertently submitting a paper to a journal that is unlikely to publish it is a waste of resources and ultimately delays dissemination of one's research. A high proportion of manuscripts are rejected by their author's first-choice journal. The aim of the present work was to review guidance provided within the literature for journal selection that might minimize the chance of manuscr...

background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

background: the purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of iran. methods: the study was done in 2009-10 in tehran, kerman, and iran medical universities, iran.  we contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of iranian journal of public health...

Database outsourcing is an idea to eliminate the burden of database management from organizations. Since data is a critical asset of organizations, preserving its privacy from outside adversary and untrusted server should be warranted. In this paper, we present a distributed scheme based on storing shares of data on different servers and separating indexes from data on a distinct server. Shamir...

three nearly simultaneous events around the end of the 19th century, i.e., the discovery of x‐rays by roentgen in 1895, natural radioactivity by antoine‐henri becquerel in 1896 and isolation of radium by the curies' in 1898 opened the nuclear era which has changed broadly the worlds of physics, biology and medicine. at the close of the 20th century, fundamental discoveries in biology at mo...

Purpose of the study . This is devoted to analysis and conduct a systematic review literature on relationship between education creative economy based citation scientific papers in international scientometric database. The aim quantify quality area under consideration by identifying most relevant trends gaps literature. research methodology was implemented through articles, for following keywor...

This study presents bibliometric analysis of brand-related content on social media. By filtering by topic in the WOS database, publications between 2000 and 2021 two types media content, firm-generated (FGC) user-generated (UGC), are examined. For FGC, 47 articles database reviewed, while 3502 included for UGC. The research results found that FGC studies researchers mainly were “Business,” UGC ...

1. Full Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. The most commonly used criterion for evaluating the quality of scientific journals is the impact factor (IF), created by the American company Thomson Reuters through the Web of Knowledge index known as Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The index is calculated by the Instit...

Human Genomics and Proteomics (HGP) is a new genomics and systems biology journal that is affiliated with an international, open access database. In addition to publishing original research articles and review articles, the journal will also include short descriptions of genetic datasets pertaining to population/ethnic-specific mutation frequencies. HGP is the first scientific journal from SAGE...

BACKGROUND Web of Science and Scopus are the leading databases of scholarly impact. Recent studies outside the field of nursing report differences in journal coverage and quality. PURPOSE A comparative analysis of nursing publications reported impact. METHOD Journal coverage by each database for the field of nursing was compared. Additionally, publications by 2014 nursing faculty were colle...