BACKGROUND The International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS) was launched in August 2007 and has recently been given a formal impact factor. This study uses bibliometric indicators to review the performance of the Journal against its original stated objectives and aspirations. METHODS All articles published in IJMHS since publication commenced were included (n = 158). Selected biblio...

Background: Of scientometric goals are to explore scientific productivity and trend, elicit scientific collaborations and inter/intra and cross disciplinary relations within a realm of study. This is a descriptive scientometric analysis of Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI) from 1987 to 2018.    Methods: The data were collected from 1987 to 2018 including the MJIRI annual ...

BACKGROUND In the greater framework of the essential functions of Public Health, our focus is on a systematic, objective, external evaluation of Latin American scientific output, to compare its publications in the area of Public Health with those of other major geographic zones. We aim to describe the regional distribution of output in Public Health, and the level of visibility and specializati...

Abstract Aims Despite the increase in female doctors graduating from medical schools internationally, gender disparity surgery remains. This is also evident academic surgery. study aims to quantify extent of authorship articles major surgical journals. Methods The Top 10 Surgical Journals were identified using SCImago Journal Rank indicator. Authorship details for papers published 2019 collecte...

Background: Citations are considered a measure of the scientific impact research articles. CiteScore is standard metric, based on Scopus database, number times articles in given journal were cited during period relative to published by that period. Objectives: To investigate factors associated with CiteScores journals cardiology and cardiovascular diseases indexed 2019. Methods: This cross-sect...

In this paper, we provide a bibliometric overview of publications in economics by authors with affiliations from Serbia. We use the Web Science database, analyse all articles published 1996 onwards, and an publications, journals targeted, trends, effects collaboration. identify main topics interest papers. To do this, bibliographic mapping most common terms used titles abstracts papers, grouped...

As we approach a new period of evaluation of Brazilian Graduate Programs by the Ministry of Education, it seems appropriate to revisit the rating systems for scientific journals. According to the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, there are about 300,000 scientific periodicals in the world today. However, 270,000 of these are not subject to the process of peer review, meaning that only 30,000 jour...