introduction: in the current study, we compared h5-index provided by google scholar (gs), impact factor (if) provided by web of sciences (wos), and scimago journal rank indicator (sjr) provided by scopus for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 if, and 2011 sjr of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely gs, wos, and scopus....

BACKGROUND One of the disadvantages of the Impact Factor (IF) is self-citation. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator excludes self-citations and considers the quality, rather than absolute numbers, of citations of a journal by other journals. The present study re-evaluated the influence of self-citation on the 2007 IF for 18 major orthopaedic journals and investigated the difference in rank...

Objectives: Our research seeks to examine the correlation between the presence of physical medicine and rehabilitation journals in social networks and the SJR impact factor. Methods: We carried out a correlation study. For the research, we took into account all physical medicine and rehabilitation journals included in the SCImago Journal Rank. The number of followers on Twitter, Facebook, YouT...

En este trabajo se avanza en la definición de un conjunto indicadores para medir visibilidad las revistas científicas ciencias sociales manera integral. Para esto, considera el uso fuentes diversas que permitan conocer citación, accesibilidad y los alcances publicaciones. Se toman como muestra 11 editadas Argentina incluidas SCImago Journal & Country Rank. analizan sus posiciones ranking nú...

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...

Abstract Bibliometric measurements are becoming omnipresent and crucially important for academic career decisions. The measured criteria induce strong incentives to align academics’ time efforts. Based on a survey of economics business scholars in German-speaking countries, this article empirically explores the interactions between scientific journal metrics behavior authors publishing process....

Using data compiled for the SCImago Institutions Ranking, we look at whether the subject area type an institution (university or research-focused institution) belongs to (in terms of the fields researched) has an influence on its ranking position. We used latent class analysis to categorize institutions based on their publications in certain subject areas. Even though this categorization does n...