OBJECTIVES Research activities are promoted at the government and the institutional levels in Oman. However, the quantity and quality of research conducted in various institutes of Oman has not been measured. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the quantity and quality of biomedical publications emanating from Oman over the last five years (2005-2009). METHODS Data regarding the bi...

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scientific journals are the primary mode of formal communication in science. the isi impact factor serves as a bibliometric indicator that measures the average citation rate of an article in a journal and has been widely used for the assessment of the quality of scientific production of individuals, research teams or institutions. the purpose of this paper was to present the impact factor, exam...

This article analyses the difference in timing between the online availability of articles and their corresponding print publication and how it affects two bibliometric indicators: Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Immediacy Index. This research examined 18,526 articles, the complete collection of articles and reviews published by a set of 61 journals on Urology and Nephrology in 2013 and 2014. T...