Four years after changing the journal name in order to adapt to its international development (formerly it was called the Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology) and two years after their last message to the readers, announcing the indexing of the journal by ISI/Thomson Reuters [1], the Editors believe it is time for a new message. And they have a good reason for this: the Journal of Gastrointest...

Bibliometric indicators increasingly affect careers, funding, and reputation of individuals, their institutions and journals themselves. In contrast to author self-citations, little is known about kinetics of journal self-citations. Here we hypothesized that they may show a generalizable pattern within particular research fields or across multiple fields. We thus analyzed self-cites to 60 journ...

Abstract Contributions to medical guidelines, so far, have hardly been considered in the measurement and evaluation of research performance Germany. We therefore examined 70 high-quality guidelines from years 2017 2018 investigated type publications cited by whether citation rates articles differ between substantiating guideline recommendations background text, or not Journal Impact Factor is c...