latter is available on free access. The classification order of the journals for each index was reviewed and the possible correlation between both indicators was evaluated using Spearman’s test. The Journal Citation Reports includes 50 specialized respiratory system journals and the SCImago Journal & Country Rank includes 98. In general, it was found that the top journals occupy similar positio...

background: this study made an attempt to make the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of hematological research output in five islamic countries iran, turkey, malaysia, saudi arabia and egypt which have the most scientific productions from 1996-2013. materials and methods: the current study was carried out during the 1st to 31st of september, 2014 in blood transfusion research center, shir...

The Korean Journal of Urology began to be published exclusively in English in 2010 and is indexed in PubMed Central/PubMed. This study analyzed a variety of citation indicators of the Korean Journal of Urology before and after 2010 to clarify the present position of the journal among the urology category journals. The impact factor, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), impact index, Z-impact factor (ZIF...

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...

The launch of Google Scholar Metrics as a tool for assessing scientific journals may be serious competition for Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports, and for Scopus’ powered Scimago Journal Rank. , A review of these bibliometric journal evaluation products is performed. We compare their main characteristics from different approaches: coverage, indexing policies, search and visualization, b...

The article outlines the eighth phase of development journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum (previous name Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU / Proceedings Commission on History Science). Information is provided following matters: journal’s evaluation by “ICI Master Journal List 2019” (released at end 2020), Ministry Education and Science Polish Republic February 9 18, 2021), Scopus 6 April SCImago...

original article   although the international labor organization (ilo) has reported that two-thirds of the world’s occupations belong to women, a few studies regarding employed women have been conducted. the present study aimed at conducting survey on scientific outputs regarding women’s occupational health. this cross-sectional study was conducted from 2010 to 2014 at five-year intervals on a ...

The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the "quality" of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and the...