Although the evaluation of knowledge in the form of a quantitation of scientific output is not uncontroversial, it is a widely practised form of science evaluation. For more than 30 years, the Science Citation Index (SCI) has been alone in fulfilling mis purpose. But since 2005 Scopus is a direct competitor to the SCI-databases. Comparing the two databases should help to answer questions that c...

PURPOSE The total number of times a paper is cited, also known as the impact factor (IF) of a medical journal, is widely implied in evaluating the quality of a research paper. We evaluated the citation index data as an IF of Korean J Pediatr in Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI) and JCI of Web of Science. METHODS We calculated the IF of Korean J Pediatr at KoMCI supervised by Korean Associ...

Received: November 9, 2017 • Revised: November 27, 2017 • Accepted: November 27, 2017 Corresponding Author: Sun Huh (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8559-8640) Department of Parasitology and Institute of Medical Education, Hallym University College of Medicine, 1 Hallimdaehak-gil, Chuncheon 24252, Korea Tel: +82.33.248.2652 Fax: +82.33.241.1672 email: [email protected] Korean J Med Educ 2017 De...

For reasons that few of us would pretend to comprehend, the so called "impact factor" has become the starring bibliometric indicator of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), themselves a major product of the Institute for Scientific Information, Inc (ISI) in the field of information science. Importantly, there are different JCR editions; in the health sciences the best known is the Science Citati...

In this study we compare the visibility and performance of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Science in terms of its presence in the core collection indexes included in the Web of Science (WoS) —Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index—and the Scielo Citation Index (SciELO CI)—which was recently integrated into the WoS platform. The ...

The purpose of this scientometric study is to analyze the multiple sclerosis research in Science Citation Index-Expanded from 1992 to 2019 in order to determine the top features, trends, and topics. Articles related to multiple sclerosis in the section of title, abstract, keywords, and KeyWords Plus were retrieved from the Science Citation Index-Expanded and analyzed based on various indicators...