background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

مقدمه:امروزه تعدد و کیفیت نامعلوم مجلات حیطه‏های مختلف علوم پزشکی، پژوهشگران را در انتخاب مجله مناسب برای انتشار نتایج تحقیقات علمی سردرگم کرده است. شاید معیارهای سنجش کیفیت مجلات بتوانند این مشکل را تا حدودی حل کنند؛ لذا مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی کیفیت مجلات حوزه‏ زنان و مامایی بر اساس شاخص‏های رتبه‏بندی مجلات در پایگاه‏های اطلاعاتی معتبر انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه به صورت توصیفی تحلیلی و به...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...

background: in this study, the impact of self-citation (journal and author) on impact factor of iranian english medical journals in two international citation databases, web of science (wos) and islamic world science citation center (isc), were compared by citation analysis. methods: twelve journals in wos and 26 journals in isc databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...

OBJECTIVE The research assessed nursing faculty awareness and knowledge of the journal impact factor (JIF) and its impact on their publication choices. METHODS A qualitative cross-sectional questionnaire was developed using Fluid Survey and distributed electronically to nursing faculty and instructors at three post-secondary institutions in Saskatchewan. Data were collected on place and statu...

Beyond the commonly mentioned limitations of the Journal Impact Factor, we discuss the obsolete principle of selecting journals to create a fake-representative sample of 'journals that matter' and the opacity around the calculation and listing of Impact Factors. We use the example of Pharmacy Practice: in 2015 for illustration. We hypothesize that a business-oriented system of measuring the sci...

BACKGROUND Thomson Institute for Scientific Information's journal impact factor, the most common measure of journal status, is based on crude citation counts that do not account for the quality of the journals where the citations originate. This study examines how accounting for citation origin affects the impact factor ranking of dermatology journals. METHODS The 2003 impact factors of derma...

In this article, we present the results of an analysis that describes the research centered on Journal Impact Factors (JIFs). The purpose of the analysis is to make a start of studying part of the field of quantitative science studies that relates to the most famous and classic bibliometric indicator around and to see what characteristics apply to the research on JIFs. In this article, we start...