Scientific research has always played a fundamental role in promoting health and the progress of society as whole. A recent editorial published The Lancet discussed plausible scenarios outlined vision future which could be an instrument for "equitable sustainable world with better all"

In last June SCImago launched the 2017 cites per doc of the journals that make up its bibliographic database. As is the case with the impact factor, this bibliometric index is calculated each year and is based on the average number of citations of articles published in a given periodical. Although this bibliometric methodology has drawn criticism it is believed that the more often a recently pu...

University rankings generally present users with the problem of placing the results given for an institution in context. Only a comparison with the performance of all other institutions makes it possible to say exactly where an institution stands. In order to interpret the results of the SCImago Institutions Ranking (based on Scopus data) and the Leiden Ranking (based on Web of Science data), i...

INTRODUCTION Awareness of the latest scientific research and publishing articles in top journals is one of the major concerns of health researchers. In this study, we first introduced top journals of obstetrics and gynecology field based on their Impact Factor (IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator indexed in Scopus databases and then the scientometric features of...

purpose: the purpose of this research is analysis links of these indicators. method: this research is a scientometrics study and it includs 37 countries that have more than 100 h-index in 1996 until 2010 in scimago. these countries were studied in 3 difference clusters. the data gathered from wos, scimago, unesco, oecd and world bank databases. excel and spss are used to analyze the data. also,...

This article investigates the research influence (as indicated by citations and SCImago quartile classification of target journal publication) as per Global Western standards foreign Chinese academics in mainland China. The focus on echoes policy shifts from quantity to quality. study analyses Scopus publications working 15 research-intensive universities, comparing them with colleagues same me...

The evaluation of journals based on their influence is of interest for numerous reasons. Various methods of computing a score have been proposed for measuring the scientific influence of scholarly journals. Typically the computation of any of these scores involves compiling the citation information pertaining to the journal under consideration. This involves significant overhead since the artic...