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Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Alireza, Farshid Danesh, and Nadia Hadji-Azizi. "Webometrics as a method for identifying the most accredited free electronic journals." Electronic Library 33, no. 1 (2015): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-10-2012-0141.
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Purpose – The present study aims at determining the most accredited free English electronic journals (EJs) in Medical Sciences, as finding free scholarly EJs including medical ones is difficult in the web environment. Design/methodology/approach – The research population consisted of 700 free EJs of Medical Sciences, which were collected from two reputable websites, namely, Directory of Open Access Journals and Free Medical Journals. After first screening, 269 free EJs including 76 journals in health, 4 journals in nursing, 175 journals in medicine and 14 free EJs in dentistry remained for final investigation […]. Findings – The most accredited journals in four medical disciplines studied here are health: New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, PLoS Biology and Environmental Health Perspectives – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; nursing: Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care and Online Journal of Nursing Informatics […]. Originality/value – This research can be treated as an addition to the webometrics literature.
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Polenakovic, Momir, and Lenche Danevska. "Biomedical Journals in Republic of Macedonia: the Current State." PRILOZI 35, no. 3 (2014): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/prilozi-2015-0007.
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AbstractSeveral biomedical journals in the Republic of Macedonia have succeeded in maintaining regular publication over the years, but only a few have a long-standing tradition. In this paper we present the basic characteristics of 18 biomedical journals that have been published without a break in the Republic of Macedonia. Of these, more details are given for 14 journals, a particular emphasis being on the journal Prilozi/Contributions of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Section of Medical Sciences as one of the journals with a long-term publishing tra-dition and one of the journals included in the Medline/PubMed database. A brief or broad description is given for the following journals: Macedonian Medical Review, Acta Morphologica, Physioacta, MJMS - Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, International Medical Journal Medicus, Archives of Public Health, Epilepsy, Macedonian Orthopaedics and Traumatology Journal, BANTAO Journal, Macedonian Dental Review, Macedonian Pharmaceutical Bulletin, Macedonian Veterinary Review, Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics, Contributions of the Macedonian Scientific Society of Bitola, Vox Medici, Social Medicine: Professional Journal for Public Health, and Prilozi/Contributions of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Journals from Macedonia should aim to be published regularly, should comply with the Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, and with the recommendations of reliable organizations working in the field of publishing and research. These are the key prerequisites which Macedonian journals have to accomplish in order to b? included in renowned international bibliographic databases. Thus the results of biomedical science from the Republic of Macedonia will be presented to the international scientific arena.
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Rew, David A. "The development of high impact national and regional journals in medicine and the health sciences." Science Editor and Publisher 5, no. 2 (2021): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24069/2542-0267-2020-2-113-122.
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The international academic journal publishing landscape is complex and in continuous flux. Many Russian editors and publishers wish to bring their journals into the global mainstream and to develop internationally competitive profiles for their work. Bibliometric citation systems are one means by which the quality of journals, of articles and researchers, can be assessed, referenced and compared. Scopus and the Web of Science are two major and respected quality assurance systems for global publishing, within which many academic journals seek formal listings. These listings help develop a wider international profi for any journal. They also provide valuable data through which journals can benchmark their performance against all other journals in any subject fi In turn, this information helps to stimulate competition and quality improvement across the entire academic journal ecosystem.
 
 Scopus provides a transparent and continually evolving evaluation and feedback system for journals seeking a listing and those journals that have already been listed within Scopus. An application for a Scopus listing is a process through which a journal is evaluated by several quantitative and qualitative criteria against global benchmarks. A successful listing can sometimes require a series of strategic insights and developments by editors and publishers over several years.
 
 In this article, Dr David Rew, a practising clinician and the Subject Chair for Medicine to the Scopus Content Selection Advisory Board since 2009, distils the experience of evaluation of more than 2000 Medical and Health Sciences journals to guide as to what features and strategies give academic journals a better chance of long term success in the competitive world of global academic publishing.
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Araujo Inastrilla, Carlos Rafael, and Dalila Cárdenas Hernández. "Comunication strategy in social media for the Cuban Journal of Health Technology." Health Leadership and Quality of Life 1 (December 30, 2022): 79. https://doi.org/10.56294/hl202279.
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Introduction: in the academic field, social networks are useful tools for the dissemination of research results and to promote the visibility of authors and scientific journals. The Editorial Team of the Cuban Journal of Health Technology recognizes the importance and the need for an adequate management of the journal's corporate social media profiles. Objective: to design a communication strategy in social networks for the Cuban Journal of Health Technology. Method: a development research was carried out where a communication strategy in social networks was elaborated for the journal. Six stages were followed: internal analysis, external analysis, audience delimitation, strategy and specific objectives, publication schedule and monitoring. Statistical tools and platforms such as Metricool were used. Results: the strategy included an analysis of scientific journals in the area of medical sciences and the characterization of the consumer audience. The journal has a larger audience in some social networks than other journals in the sector, but it is still rated as insufficient. The objectives to be met with each network, the publication schedule and the indicators to be evaluated with the implementation were described. Conclusions: A communication strategy in social networks was designed to increase the visibility of the Cuban Journal of Health Technology, based on the analysis of internal and external factors of the journal, and on specific objectives
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Kim, Jihyun, Soon Kim, Hye-Min Cho, Jae Hwa Chang, and Soo Young Kim. "Data sharing policies of journals in life, health, and physical sciences indexed in Journal Citation Reports." PeerJ 8 (October 13, 2020): e9924. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9924.
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Background Many scholarly journals have established their own data-related policies, which specify their enforcement of data sharing, the types of data to be submitted, and their procedures for making data available. However, except for the journal impact factor and the subject area, the factors associated with the overall strength of the data sharing policies of scholarly journals remain unknown. This study examines how factors, including impact factor, subject area, type of journal publisher, and geographical location of the publisher are related to the strength of the data sharing policy. Methods From each of the 178 categories of the Web of Science’s 2017 edition of Journal Citation Reports, the top journals in each quartile (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4) were selected in December 2018. Of the resulting 709 journals (5%), 700 in the fields of life, health, and physical sciences were selected for analysis. Four of the authors independently reviewed the results of the journal website searches, categorized the journals’ data sharing policies, and extracted the characteristics of individual journals. Univariable multinomial logistic regression analyses were initially conducted to determine whether there was a relationship between each factor and the strength of the data sharing policy. Based on the univariable analyses, a multivariable model was performed to further investigate the factors related to the presence and/or strength of the policy. Results Of the 700 journals, 308 (44.0%) had no data sharing policy, 125 (17.9%) had a weak policy, and 267 (38.1%) had a strong policy (expecting or mandating data sharing). The impact factor quartile was positively associated with the strength of the data sharing policies. Physical science journals were less likely to have a strong policy relative to a weak policy than Life science journals (relative risk ratio [RRR], 0.36; 95% CI [0.17–0.78]). Life science journals had a greater probability of having a weak policy relative to no policy than health science journals (RRR, 2.73; 95% CI [1.05–7.14]). Commercial publishers were more likely to have a weak policy relative to no policy than non-commercial publishers (RRR, 7.87; 95% CI, [3.98–15.57]). Journals by publishers in Europe, including the majority of those located in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, were more likely to have a strong data sharing policy than a weak policy (RRR, 2.99; 95% CI [1.85–4.81]). Conclusions These findings may account for the increase in commercial publishers’ engagement in data sharing and indicate that European national initiatives that encourage and mandate data sharing may influence the presence of a strong policy in the associated journals. Future research needs to explore the factors associated with varied degrees in the strength of a data sharing policy as well as more diverse characteristics of journals related to the policy strength.
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Swab, Michelle. "Connecting Users to Articles: An Analysis of the Impact of Article Level Linking on Journal Use Statistics." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 14, no. 4 (2019): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/eblip29613.
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 Objective – Electronic resource management challenges and “big deal” cancellations at one Canadian university library contributed to a situation where a number of electronic journal subscriptions at the university’s health sciences library lacked article level linking. The aim of this study was to compare the usage of journals with article level linking enabled to journals where only journal level linking was available or enabled.
 Methods – A list of electronic journal title subscriptions was generated from vendor and subscription agent invoices. Journal titles were eligible for inclusion if the subscription was available throughout 2018 on the publisher’s platform, if the subscription costs were fully funded by the health sciences library, and if management of the subscription required title-by-title intervention by library staff. Of the 356 journal titles considered, 302 were included in the study. Negative binomial regression was performed to determine the effect of journal vs. article level linking on total COUNTER Journal Report 1 (JR1) successful full-text article requests for 2018, controlling for journal publisher, subject area, journal ranking, and alternate aggregator access.
 Results – The negative binomial regression model demonstrated that article level linking had a significant, positive effect on total 2018 JR1 (coef: 0.645; p < 0.001). Article level linking increased the expected total JR1 by 90.7% when compared to journals where article level linking was not available or enabled. Differences in predicted usage between journals with article level linking and those without article level linking remained significant at various journal ranking levels. This suggests that usage of both smaller, more specialized journals (e.g., Journal of Vascular Research) and larger, general journals (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine) increases when article level linking is enabled.
 Conclusions – This study provides statistical evidence that enabling article level linking has a positive impact on journal usage at one academic health sciences library. Although further study is needed, academic libraries should consider enabling article level linking wherever possible in order to facilitate user access, maximize the value of journal subscriptions, and improve convenience for users.
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Nagaraja, Aragudige, and A. B. Prashanth. "Serials use in post graduates’ dissertations of pharmaceutical sciences: collection building by citation analysis." Collection Building 34, no. 3 (2015): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cb-02-2015-0004.
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Purpose – This study aims to analyze the resources used in the citations of 156 postgraduate dissertations submitted to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) through the Acharya & BM Reddy College of Pharmacy (ABMRCP), and prepares the core journal list according to the Bradford’s law of scattering. For any research and academic institutional libraries, books and journals are considered as key resources. As the resources are more and diverse, collection building is a tough task for librarians. Citation analysis is one of the best methods to list the most used resources by the users. The paper highlights the extent use of in-house resources and open access journals in the citations. Design/methodology/approach – Citations of PG dissertations during 2010-2013 (four years) were compiled, the data about the resources cited in each were taken and the list of resources used in PG dissertations was prepared. The list of core journals obtained by citation analysis was matched with the list of online journals provided by Health Science Library & Information Network (HELINET) of RGUHS as well as print list of journals subscribed by ABMRCP Library, and evaluated the print and online consortia journals used by ABMRCP community. The list of core journals’ ranking in the SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) list-pharmaceutical sciences was identified to know the impact of the journals. Findings – The study gives the list of different information resources cited in the pharmacy dissertations. The core list obtained by applying the Bradford’s law of scattering in this study has 19 journals pertaining to pharmacy. After matching the core list with the Keogh’s list, it is found that 31 journals can be considered very useful in the field of pharmacy. Twelve journals listed in the core list have different positions in the SJR ranking 2013. The results indicate that open-access journals with online journals subscribed through HELINET and print holdings have been cited more in the PG dissertations. Originality/value – The topic of journal use in this case may be of greatest interest to those who purchase journals in the sciences and, very specifically, the pharmaceutical sciences.
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Macan, Bojan, Aleksandra Pikić, and Marina Mayer. "(Inter)national orientation of Croatian social sciences and arts and humanities journals indexed in the Web of Science database." Društvena istraživanja 21, no. 2 (2012): 505–21. https://doi.org/10.5559/di.21.2.11.
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After the beginning of the year 2007, the number of Croatian scientific journals indexed in bibliographical and citation database Web of Science (WoS) has rapidly increased, and among them the number of Croatian social sciences (SS) and arts and humanities (A&H) journals as well. In this paper, the (inter)national orientation of Croatian social sciences (SS) and arts and humanities (A&H) journals indexed in the period 2008-2010 in the Web of Science (WoS) database was analyzed. The analysis was conducted via language of the journal title and published papers, national distribution of authors and co-authorship structure, as well as via the INO indicator. For the purpose of this analysis, SS journals were divided into 2 groups – SS journals related to medicine and health (SSM) and other SS journals (SSO), while A&H journals were observed as one group (AH). Results of the analysis showed that Croatian SSM journals are the most internationally oriented among analyzed groups of journals according to all indicators, while the SSO journals have the strongest national orientation. However, all three analyzed groups of journals are still the most attractive first for Croatian authors, and than to authors from region (SSO, SSM) and top 20 countries in the world sciences (AH).
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Gardener, Antoni D., Ellen J. Hick, Chloe Jacklin, et al. "Open science and conflict of interest policies of medical and health sciences journals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A repeat cross-sectional study." JRSM Open 13, no. 11 (2022): 205427042211321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20542704221132139.
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Objectives To audit the transparent and open science standards of health and medical sciences journal policies and explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Repeat cross-sectional study. Setting 19 journals listed in Google Scholar's Top Publications for health and medical sciences. Participants Blood, Cell, Circulation, European Heart Journal, Gastroenterology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Translational Medicine, The British Medical Journal, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, The Lancet Oncology, and The New England Journal of Medicine. Main outcome measures We used the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guideline and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements for disclosing conflicts of interest (COIs) to evaluate journals standards. Results TOP scores slightly improved during the COVID-19 pandemic, from a median of 5 (IQR: 2–12.5) out of a possible 24 points in February 2020 to 7 (IQR: 4–12) in May 2021, but overall, scores were very low at both time points. Journal policies scored highest for their adherence to data transparency and scored lowest for preregistration of study protocols and analysis plans and the submission of replication studies. Most journals fulfilled all ICMJE provisions for reporting COIs before (84%; n = 16) and during (95%; n = 18) the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of practising open science. However, requirements for open science practices in audited policies were overall low, which may impede progress in health and medical research. As key stakeholders in disseminating research, journals should promote a research culture of greater transparency and more robust open science practices.
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Aquino-Canchari, Christian Renzo, Anabel Jimena Osco-Mueras, Luis Arturo Santivañez-Isla, and Katia Medalith Huamán Castillón. "Accessibility to student publication in dental journals in the world." Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences 21 (August 23, 2022): e226694. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/bjos.v21i00.8666694.
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Scientific research and publication play an important role during the training of dentists, but one of the most outstanding barriers is the authorship conditions of the journals. Aim: The objective of the study was to determine the accessibility to student publication in dental journals in the world. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out. 208 journals indexed in Scimago Journal & Country Rank that met inclusion and exclusion criteria were included. The instructions for the authors were reviewed, an email was subsequently sent to the journal contact and articles with student affiliation were searched in the database of each journal. For the analysis of the descriptive statistical data of frequencies and percentage, the IBM SPPS Statistics Standard Edition 22 program was used. Results: 208 journals were included, 77.67% accepted the student publication without condition. The United States, United Kingdom and India were the countries with the highest number of journals with student participation. Likewise, the journals of Q4 (85.70%), Q3 (85.40%) and Basic Sciences (100%), Dental Education (100%), Endodontic (100%), Geriatrics and Gerontology (100%) and Public Dental Health (100%), mostly accepted student authorship. Conclusion: It is concluded that 167 (77.67%) of the dental journals accept the publication of dental students without condition, being more frequent in journals positioned in Q4 (85.70%). Also, journals with thematic areas on Basic Sciences, Dental Education, Endodontic, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Public Dental Health.
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Dada, Sara, Kim Robin van Daalen, Alanna Barrios-Ruiz, et al. "Challenging the “old boys club” in academia: Gender and geographic representation in editorial boards of journals publishing in environmental sciences and public health." PLOS Global Public Health 2, no. 6 (2022): e0000541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000541.
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In light of global environmental crises and the need for sustainable development, the fields of public health and environmental sciences have become increasingly interrelated. Both fields require interdisciplinary thinking and global solutions, which is largely directed by scientific progress documented in peer-reviewed journals. Journal editors play a critical role in coordinating and shaping what is accepted as scientific knowledge. Previous research has demonstrated a lack of diversity in the gender and geographic representation of editors across scientific disciplines. This study aimed to explore the diversity of journal editorial boards publishing in environmental science and public health. The Clarivate Journal Citation Reports database was used to identify journals classified as Public, Environmental, and Occupational (PEO) Health, Environmental Studies, or Environmental Sciences. Current EB members were identified from each journal’s publicly available website between 1 March and 31 May 2021. Individuals’ names, editorial board roles, institutional affiliations, geographic locations (city, country), and inferred gender were collected. Binomial 95% confidence intervals were calculated for the proportions of interest. Pearson correlations with false discovery rate adjustment were used to assess the correlation between journal-based indicators and editorial board characteristics. Linear regression and logistic regression models were fitted to further assess the relationship between gender presence, low- and middle-income country (LMIC) presence and several journal and editor-based indicators. After identifying 628 unique journals and excluding discontinued or unavailable journals, 615 journal editorial boards were included. In-depth analysis was conducted on 591 journals with complete gender and geographic data for their 27,772 editors. Overall, the majority of editors were men (65.9%), followed by women (32.9%) and non-binary/other gender minorities (0.05%). 75.5% journal editorial boards (n = 446) were composed of a majority of men (>55% men), whilst only 13.2% (n = 78) demonstrated gender parity (between 45–55% women/gender minorities). Journals categorized as PEO Health had the most gender diversity. Furthermore, 84% of editors (n = 23,280) were based in high-income countries and only 2.5% of journals (n = 15) demonstrated economic parity in their editorial boards (between 45–55% editors from LMICs). Geographically, the majority of editors’ institutions were based in the United Nations (UN) Western Europe and Other region (76.9%), with 35.2% of editors (n = 9,761) coming solely from the United States and 8.6% (n = 2,373) solely from the United Kingdom. None of the editors-in-chief and only 27 editors in total were women based in low-income countries. Through the examination of journal editorial boards, this study exposes the glaring lack of diversity in editorial boards in environmental science and public health, explores the power dynamics affecting the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and proposes concrete actions to remedy these structural inequities in order to inform more equitable, just and impactful knowledge creation.
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Gotschall, Terri, Angela Spencer, Margaret A. Hoogland, Elisa Cortez, and Elizabeth Irish. "Journals accepting case reports." Journal of the Medical Library Association 111, no. 4 (2023): 819–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2023.1747.
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Background: Few resources exist to support finding journals that accept case reports by specialty. In 2016, Katherine Akers compiled a list of 160 journals that accepted case reports, which many librarians continue to use 7 years later. Because journals’ editorial policies and submission guidelines evolve, finding publication venues for case reports poses a dynamic problem, consisting of reviewing a journal’s author guidelines to determine if the journal accepts case report manuscripts. This project aimed to create a more up to date and extensive list of journals that currently accept case reports. Case Presentation: 1,874 journal titles were downloaded from PubMed. The team reviewed each journal and identified journal titles that accept case reports. Additional inclusion factors included being indexed in MEDLINE, accessible on the internet, and accepting and publishing English language submissions. Discussion: The new journal list includes 1,028 journals covering 129 specialties and is available on the Open Science Framework public page.
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Vitón-Castillo, Adrián Alejandro, Mario Javier Garces Ginarte, Alejandro Luis Cisnero Piñeiro, Eveline García Espinosa, Jadier Wong Silva, and Nieves María Arencibia Parada. "Caracterización de la colección de revistas científicas universitarias de las ciencias de la salud en cuba." AG Salud 2 (March 30, 2024): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.62486/agsalud202471.
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Introduction: the existence of university scientific journals has a positive impact on undergraduate publication, encouraging and training new generations of researchers. Objective: to characterize the collection of University Scientific Journals of Health Sciences in Cuba. Method: observational, descriptive and transversal study in the 15 journals that form the University Scientific Journals of Health Sciences in Cuba. Production indicators were studied, as well as indexing. Results: 15 Cuban RCUs referring to the area of Health Sciences were identified. One hundred percent are installed in Open Journal System, and only one uses its version 3. 93,33 % have an ISSN. The journals Universidad Médica Pinareña and 16 de abril achieved a greater number of indexations. The database with the highest number of journals was REDIB (9), followed by DOAJ (4) and CAB International (4). The most productive year was 2021 (ndoc=394), with the most productive journals being 16 de Abril (ndoc=304) and Universidad Médica Pinareña (ndoc=274). The rate of change showed an increasing trend in the period 2018-2021, however it was negative (Tvar=-5,21) between 2021 and 2022. Conclusions: Cuba has a wide collection of University Scientific Journals, which are in a process of growth and consolidation. There was a tendency to increase the number of articles published in the journals. The journals Universidad Médica Pinareña and 16 de abril showed a greater development, achieving better indexing and a higher scientific production.
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VASCONCELOS, Francisco de Assis Guedes de. "The scientific production of Nutrition published by the Scientific Electronic Library under the gaze of the evaluation of the Coordination for the Development of Higher Education Personnel." Revista de Nutrição 30, no. 2 (2017): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-98652017000200001.
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ABSTRACT Objective: Perform analysis of the scientific production of Nutrition published by the Scientific Electronic Library under the gaze of the evaluation of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Methods: Systematic search was performed in the 286 current title journals, using the "article search" path, the "subject index" window and the "Nutrition" indexer. The articles and periodicals selected were analyzed in order to answer the following questions: Which journals from Scientific Electronic Library publish articles on Nutrition? Do these journals have an impact factor as measured by the Journal Citation Reports? Which are? What is the classification of these journals by the areas of evaluation of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, specifically by the area of Nutrition? Results: We analyzed 779 articles published in 85 journals. The majority of articles (n=698; 89.6%) were related to the area of Health Sciences. The five journals with higher volumes of articles were: Brazilian Journal of Nutrition, Reports in Public Health, Public Health Journal, Science & Public Health and Journal of Pediatrics. Most (62.4%) does not have Journal Citation Reports. The Nutrition area not rated any journal in strata A1 and A2, classifying them from B1 to B4. For eight areas analyzed their specific journals were induced to the upper strata of Qualis (A1, A2 and B1). Conclusion: The analyzed journals are the main vehicles of circulation of scientific paradigms of national scientific communities. Considering the correlation of forces between the vehicles of circulation of scientific knowledge in the international context, stimuli for valorization and qualification of these journals are essential.
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Sullo, Elaine. "Open Access Papers Have a Greater Citation Advantage in the Author-Pays Model Compared to Toll Access Papers in Springer and Elsevier Open Access Journals." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 11, no. 1 (2016): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b84w67.
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 Sotudeh, H., Ghasempour, Z., & Yaghtin, M. (2015). The citation advantage of author-pays model: The case of Springer and Elsevier OA journals. Scientometrics, 104(2), 581-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1607-5 
 
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 Objective – To investigate the citation performance of open access (OA) and toll access (TA) papers published in author-pays open access journals.
 
 Design – Longitudinal citation analysis.
 
 Setting – Publications in Springer and Elsevier’s author-pays open access journals.
 
 Subjects – 633 journals published using the author-pays model. This model encompasses both journals where the article processing charge (APC) is required and journals in which authors can request open access and voluntarily pay APCs for accepted manuscripts.
 
 Methods – The authors identified APC funded journals (journals funded by mandatory author processing charges as well as those where authors voluntarily paid a fee in order to have their articles openly accessible) from both Springer and Elsevier, and analyzed papers published in these journals from 2007 to 2011. The authors excluded journals that adopted the APC model later than 2007. To identify Springer titles, the authors created a search strategy to identify open access articles in SpringerLink. A total of 576 journals were identified and double checked in the Sherpa-Romeo database (a database of copyright and open access self-archiving policies of academic journals) to verify their open access policies. The authors then downloaded the journal content using SpringerLink, and using Springer Author-Mapper, separated out the open access articles from the toll access articles. 
 
 In order to identify the Elsevier APC funded journals, the authors referred to “Open Access Journal Directory: A-Z,” which contained 35 OA journals (p. 584). Once the authors consulted “Sponsored articles” issued by Elsevier and verified titles in Sherpa-Romeo, they identified 57 journals that fit the “author-pays” model. The bibliographic information was downloaded and OA articles were separated from TA articles. The authors confirmed that all journals were indeed OA publications by downloading the full-text from off-campus locations; they also verified that the journals were using the APC model by visiting each journal’s website. 
 
 Because of the large number of subject areas of the identified journals, the researchers decided to classify the journals into four broader categories: Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. To calculate the impact of OA papers, citation per paper (CPP) was calculated for each subject area. Impact values were calculated on an annual basis as well. The researchers calculated the citation advantage of OA articles as the “difference between the open access and toll access impacts in terms of a percentage of the latter” (p. 585).
 
 Main Results – The authors categorized their findings according to three themes: the growth of APC funded OA papers, the number of OA papers by discipline, and citation advantage of OA vs. TA in general and by subject area.
 
 Together, Springer and Elsevier published 18,654 OA papers in the APC journals; this number represents 4.7% of the 396,760 papers published between 2007 and 2011. While the number of OA and TA papers has been growing annually, the number of OA papers has been growing more rapidly compared to the TA papers. 
 
 In terms of subject areas, Life Sciences had the largest number of OA and TA papers (184,315), followed by Health Sciences (149,341), Natural Sciences (121,274), and Social Sciences and Humanities (42,824). Natural Sciences had the most OA papers (5.7%) in terms of the number of papers in this subject area being OA papers, followed by Social Sciences and Humanities (5.2%), Health Sciences (4.6%) and Life Sciences (3.6%). 
 
 Overall, the researchers found that the impact values of OA papers were larger than those of the TA papers for each year examined. In considering subject areas, in all disciplines except Life Sciences, the most highly cited paper in the field is an OA paper. In Life Sciences, the most highly cited TA paper had 2,215 citations, compared to the OA paper, which had 1,501 citations. Even though the TA paper had more citations, overall, the OA papers had a higher impact (citation advantage). In Health Sciences, the most highly cited OA paper received 1,501 citations, which is 1.2 times the most highly cited TA paper, with 1,252 citations. The citation advantage for the OA group is 33.29% higher than the TA group. In Natural Sciences, the number of citations from the highest cited OA paper is 1,736, or 2.52 times higher than the most highly cited TA paper. The OA papers in this discipline had a 35.95% citation advantage. In Social Sciences and Humanities, the most highly cited OA paper had 681 citations, compared to the TA paper, with 432 citations. For this subject area, the citation impact of the OA paper is 3.14% higher than the TA paper. 
 
 Conclusions – In sum, the number of article processing charge funded open access papers has grown tremendously in recent years. Furthermore, open access papers have a citation advantage over toll access papers, both annually and across disciplines.
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Eldredge, Jonathan D. "Predicting Future Information Resource Utilization Under Conditions of Scarcity: The First Cohort Study in Health Sciences Librarianship." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3, no. 4 (2008): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8gp7n.
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 Postell, William Dosité. “Further Comments on the Mathematical Analysis of Evaluating Scientific Journals.” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 34.2 (1946): 107-9.
 
 Objective – To predict future use of journal titles for making subscription decisions.
 
 Design – Retrospective cohort study. 
 
 Setting – Louisiana State University School of Medicine Library in New Orleans.
 
 Subjects – All library users, estimated to consist of primarily faculty members or their designees such as research assistants.
 
 Methods – Estelle Brodman’s previous citation analysis and reputational analysis (1944) that produced a list of eleven top-ranked physiology journal titles served as the catalyst for Postell’s retrospective cohort study. Postell compiled data on all checkouts for these specific eleven journal titles in his library for the years 1939 through approximately 1945. 
 
 Main Results – Postell performed a Spearman rank-difference test on the rankings produced from his own circulation use data in order to compare it against journal title rankings produced from three other sources: (1) citation analysis from the references found in the Annual Review of Physiology based upon a system pioneered in 1927 by Gross and Gross; (2) three leading national physiology journals; and, (3) a reputational analysis list of top-ranked journals provided by the faculty members at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Physiology. Postell found a relatively high correlation (.755, with 1.000 equaling a perfect correlation) between his retrospective cohort usage data and the reputational analysis list of top-ranked journals generated by the Columbia faculty members. The two citation analyses performed by Brodman did not correlate as highly with Postell’s results.
 
 Conclusion – Brodman previously had questioned the use of citation analysis for journal subscription purchase decisions. Postell’s retrospective cohort study produced further evidence against basing subscription purchases on citation analysis. Postell noted that the citation analysis method “cannot always be relied upon as a valid criterion” for selecting journals in a discipline.
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LNU, Madanmohan. "ADVANCES IN YOGA HEALTH SCIENCES." Annals of SBV 5, no. 2 (2016): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10085-5202.
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Feeley, Thomas, Seyoung Lee, and Shin-Il Moon. "A Journal-Level Analysis of Progress in Transplantation." Progress in Transplantation 28, no. 1 (2017): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1526924817746914.
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Context: Citations to articles published in academic journals represent a proxy for influence in bibliometrics. Objective: To measure the journal impact factor for Progress in Transplantation over time and to also identify related journals indexed in transplantation and surgery. Design: Data from Journal Citation Reports (ISI web of science) were used to rank Progress in Transplantation compared to peer journals using journal impact and journal relatedness measures. Social network analysis was used to measure relationships between pairs of journals in Progress in Transplantation’s relatedness network. Main Outcome Measures: Journal impact factor and journal relatedness. Results: Data from 2010 through 2015 indicate the average journal article in PIT was cited 0.87 times (standard deviation [SD] = 0.12) and this estimate was stable over time. Progress in Transplantation most often cited American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, and Liver Transplantation. In terms of cited data, the journal was most often referenced by Clinical Transplantation, Transplant International, and Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. Conclusion: The journal is listed both in surgery and transplantation categories of Journal Citation Reports and its impact factors over time fare better with surgery journals than with transplant journals. Network data using betweenness centrality indicate Progress in Transplantation links transplantation-focused journals and journals indexed in health sciences categories.
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Joubert, Gina. "Reporting and presentation of statistical analyses: instructions for authors of health sciences journals based in South Africa." European Science Editing 50 (February 23, 2024): e114734. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e114734.
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<b>Background:</b> Statistical analyses are a key component of quantitative research in health sciences. <b>Objectives:</b> To review the instructions for authors on reporting and presentation of statistical methods by all health sciences journals based in South Africa. <b>Methods: </b>Health sciences journals based in South Africa that publish original quanti-tative research articles were identified using three sources, namely the list of accred-ited South African journals compiled by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training in 2022, relevant journals covered in Scopus, and web pages of major health sciences publishers in South Africa. The list was cross-checked against the listing of journals in Sabinet, an online database covering South Africa, under the category ‘Collection: Medicine and Health’. The instructions for authors given by the journals were accessed through their websites. The form for recording data was based on items listed in the ‘Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature’ (SAMPL) guidelines. <b>Results:</b> All except one of the 52 journals could be located online. Of the 51, 13 (25%) made no mention of statistics in their instructions, and 11 (22%) made only a gen-eral statement regarding statistical content with no further guidance. The statistical item most frequently mentioned was the P value (45% of journals), whereas the rest of the items appeared in the instructions of 20% or fewer journals. Nine journals (18%) referred to the EQUATOR guidelines, mainly CONSORT (10%). <b>Conclusion:</b> Nearly half of the health sciences journals based in South Africa either did not mention statistics at all in their instructions for authors or made only a cur-sory reference to statistics. The study thus emphasizes that these journals, in their instructions for authors, need to cover in greater detail the reporting and presenta-tion of statistical methods in articles reporting quantitative research.
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Teplitskiy, Misha, Grace Lu, and Eamon Duede. "The Transmission of Scientific Knowledge to Wikipedia." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 9, no. 5 (2021): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v9i5.14702.
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This paper compares the scientific literature used most often by scientists to the scientific literature referenced on the English-language Wikipedia. Previous studies have raised concerns that editors of science-related articles on Wikipedia are biased toward easily available sources and underrepresent particular scientific fields. Most often, these studies examine references on Wikipedia only but make claims about how well or poorly Wikipedia represents the scientific literature as a whole. In contrast, the present study begins with the scientific literature. We use the Scopus database to identify the 250 most heavily used journals in each of 26 research fields (4620 journals in total), and estimate a variety of models to identify what makes these journals more or less likely to be cited on Wikipedia. We find that, controlling for impact factor and open access policy, Wikipedia over-represents journals from the Social Sciences, and under-represents journals from the Physical Sciences and Health Sciences. An open-access policy is not associated with increased Wikipedia presence. The most significant predictor that a journal will be cited on Wikipedia is its impact factor.
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Shehzad, Sofia. "ROLE OF JOURNALS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES." Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Science 1, no. 1 (2014): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.37762/jgmds.1-1.233.
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Medical science has progressed leaps and bounds over the past century or so. New concepts and understandings have developed overtime broadening the scope of scientific knowledge in terms of diagnosis and management of various diseases. Surgical procedures have become highly technical with surgeons world over, keen to try and adapt to the changing trends and requirements from time to time.
 The medical field is one which has always relied on sharing of knowledge amongst the stake holders especially the doctors and paramedical staff in an effort to learn from each other’s experience. The need for this co-operation and co-ordination in this day and age is beyond the iota of any doubt.
 
 One way for a constructive exchange of ideas and knowledge amongst the medical personnel is to rely on details of one’s experiences and views to be published in peer review journals accessible to others for enhancing the horizon of their professional practice The importance and impact of Medical journals was best described by a Chicago Physician Salisbury JH in 1906 as follows; “Medical school is attended, as a rule, but once in a lifetime; the meetings of the medical society are usually infrequent, but the medical journal, like the newspaper, is an ever-present friend whose influence and advice are potent for good or evil. 1” 
 
 To derive maximum benefit from published work it is important to ensure global review of research work and have a constant exchange of ideas2 by way of constructive criticism.
 
 To ensure the credibility of their published journals, most of the editorial boards strive to attain high standards of published material. Research work in the form of original articles are favored by most medical journals supplemented by book reviews, reviews of clinical practice, case reports, readers' letters, and their own editorials.3 Their significance is described as under;
 
 Original articles give information about objectives, methods, results, discussion and conclusions of a new research.
 Reviews are an overview of one particular topic of clinical Also included under this umbrella are systematic reviewsand meta-analysis.
 Reports of clinical cases of special interest or a short series of case reports are now sparingly published in journals.
 Readers letters and the editors own views on varied subjects adds to the amplitude of a journal.
 
 
 In spite of their importance in disseminating key health information, medical journals have often have had a tenuous existence with a constantly changing spectrum and many journals struggling to define their role. 
 
 A lot depends on the quality of printed material and readiness of the reading physician to accept the findings printed.Various modalities are used to rate journals for the benefit of their readers.
 
 Peer reviewed journals are now accepted as a norm for any publication to be deemed credible. With growing awareness other portals such as impact factor devised by’ Eugene Garfield’ are now frequently quoted to define the quality of a journal. Impact factor is a measure of average number of citations to recent published articles in an academic journal. It is calculated by taking into account the number of times that all items published in a journal over the period of 2 consecutive years are cited by indexed publications in the following e.g. year and dividing it by the total number of citable items published by that journal over the period of the 2 years in question. However it will be inappropriate to use it as a mean of comparison between different journals because it cannot be consistently reproduced in an independent audit4 , the speed of publication varies amongst disciplines and the nature of published articles (e.g. review articles which are cited more often).Way back in 1884, President Leartus Connor of America gave his vision for the medical journal as one which ought to be a medical school, a residency program, a clinical preceptor, a set of textbooks, and a medical society unto itself. He concluded, “it is the great unifier of the past and present, the diffuser of all new facts, new thoughts, all new and better appliances for the study of the human body and for the relief of its derangements5” Almost a century and three decades later his words have been imbibed in history as a guiding principle to define the role of journals in medical science.
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Chew, Katherine, Mary Schoenborn, James Stemper, and Caroline Lilyard. "E-Journal Metrics for Collection Management: Exploring Disciplinary Usage Differences in Scopus and Web of Science." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 11, no. 2 (2016): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b85p87.
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Objective – The purpose was to determine whether a relationship exists between journal downloads and either faculty authoring venue or citations to these faculty, or whether a relationship exists between journal rankings and local authoring venues or citations. A related purpose was to determine if any such relationship varied between or within disciplines. A final purpose was to determine if specific tools for ranking journals or indexing authorship and citation were demonstrably better than alternatives.
 
 Methods – Multiple years of journal usage, ranking, and citation data for twelve disciplines were combined in Excel, and the strength of relationships were determined using rank correlation coefficients.
 
 Results – The results illustrated marked disciplinary variation as to the degree that faculty decisions to download a journal article can be used as a proxy to predict which journals they will publish in or which journals will cite faculty’s work. While journal access requests show moderate to strong relationships with the journals in which faculty publish, as well as journals whose articles cite local faculty, the data suggest that Scopus may be the better resource to find such information for these journals in the health sciences and Web of Science may be the better resource for all other disciplines analyzed. The same can be said for the ability of external ranking mechanisms to predict faculty publishing behaviours. Eigenfactor is more predictive for both authoring and citing-by-others across most of the representative disciplines in the social sciences as well as the physical and natural sciences. With the health sciences, no clear pattern emerges. 
 
 Conclusion – Collecting and correlating authorship and citation data allows patterns of use to emerge, resulting in a more accurate picture of use activity than the commonly used cost-per-use method. To find the best information on authoring activity by local faculty for subscribed journals, use Scopus. To find the best information on citing activity by faculty peers for subscribed titles use Thomson Reuters’ customized Local Journal Use Reports (LJUR), or limit a Web of Science search to local institution. The Eigenfactor and SNIP journal quality metrics results can better inform selection decisions, and are publicly available. Given the trend toward more centralized collection development, it is still critical to obtain liaison input no matter what datasets are used for decision making. This evidence of value can be used to defend any local library “tax” that academic departments pay as well as promote services to help faculty demonstrate their research impact.
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Lamé, G., S. Huynh-Dagher, A. Komashie, M. Jankovic, and T. A. Duong. "Is Anybody Listening? A Citation Analysis of Healthcare Design Research Articles Published in Design Journals." Proceedings of the Design Society 2 (May 2022): 1293–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.131.
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AbstractCitation is a key metric in academia, and it can help to understand how ideas travel between disciplines. In this article, we report on a citation analysis of forty-four articles identified during a systematic literature review of healthcare design research published in six leading design journals. Using the Web of Science's categorisation of journals, we analyse which disciplines cite these forty-four articles. We find that these articles are much more cited in technology and engineering journals than in health sciences. We discuss these findings and the limitations of the study.
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Sethuraman, Prof K. R. "Inter-Professional Education in Health Sciences." Annals of SBV 6, no. 1 (2017): 16–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10085-6105.
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Buchan, Alison. "Accountability and High Impact Journals in the Health Sciences." Publications 5, no. 1 (2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications5010005.
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Saskowski, Ronald E. "Selected Guide to Employment Advertising in Health Sciences Journals." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 14, no. 2 (1995): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j115v14n02_04.
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Cuddy, Colleen, and Ellen Bahr. "Trends in Cataloging Electronic Journals in Health Sciences Libraries." Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 3, no. 3 (2006): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j383v03n03_03.
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Behrend, Dawn. "Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection." Charleston Advisor 23, no. 3 (2022): 47–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.23.3.47.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a primarily full-text journal database published by EBSCO Publishing Inc. for use by mental health practitioners, behavioral science researchers, and students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Holdings include nearly 600 titles of which the vast majority are peer-reviewed and/or full-text. This database is touted for offering 290 full-text journals which are indexed in APA PsycInfo and which have the capability of being linked to results in PsycInfo for subscribing institutions. The EBSCOhost platform is intuitive and user-friendly with a variety of authentication methods and compatible browsers. In comparison to such competitive products as APA PsycArticles and ProQuest Psychology Database, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection offers sufficient unique content and number of full-text journals indexed in PsycInfo to justify its purchase either in addition to these products or as a standalone database. All three products are cross-searchable with PsycInfo with a subscription. Those institutions seeking more extensive historical content, greater depth of coverage of a range of subjects in the behavioral sciences, access to APA published journals or the specialized Thesaurus of Psychologist Index Terms, or who prefer the ProQuest or APA PsycNet platform may consider PsycArticles and/or Psychology Database as alternative subscription options.
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Sife, Alfred Said, and Edda Tandi Lwoga. "Retrieving vanished Web references in health science journals in East Africa." Information and Learning Science 118, no. 7/8 (2017): 385–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-04-2017-0030.
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Purpose This study aims to examine the availability and persistence of universal resource locators (URLs) cited in scholarly articles published in selected health journals based in East Africa. Design/methodology/approach Four health sciences online journals in East Africa were selected for this study. In this study, all Web citations in the selected journal articles covering the 2001-2015 period were extracted. This study explored the number of URLs used as citations, determined the rate of URLs’ loss, identified error messages associated with inaccessible URLs, identified the top domain levels of decayed URLs, calculated the half-life of the Web citations and determined the proportion of recovered URL citations through the Internet Wayback Machine. Findings In total, 822 articles were published between 2001 and 2015. There were in total 17,609 citations of which, only 574 (3.3 per cent) were Web citations. The findings show that 253 (44.1 per cent) Web citations were inaccessible and the “404 File Not Found” error message was the most (88.9 per cent) encountered. Top-level domains with country endings had the most (23.7 per cent) missing URLs. The average half-life for the URLs cited in journal articles was 10.5 years. Only 36 (6.3 per cent) Web references were recovered through the Wayback Machine. Originality/value This is a comprehensive study of East African health sciences online journals that provides findings that raises questions as to whether URLs should continue to be included as part of bibliographic details in the lists of references. It also calls for concerted efforts from various actors in overcoming the problem of URL decay.
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Silva Costa, Larissa, Marcus Vinícius De Albuquerque Guimarães, and Vania Lisboa da Silveira Guedes. "Discurso e Prática em Prol do Acesso Aberto na Comunicação Científica." Brazilian Journal of Information Science: research trends 19 (June 7, 2025): e025019. https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2025.v19.e025019.
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The article aims to investigate the degree of compatibility between the discourse in favor of Open Science and the agreements signed between the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and the publishers of scientific journals indexed in the Health Sciences. The research is exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, and uses the CAPES Journal Portal for data collection. As methodological procedures, 11.798 journals in the Health Sciences were identified and, in order to compose the research sample, the Clinical Medicine sub-area was selected, which had the highest number of titles (1.592). In this sub-area, peer-reviewed journals were selected (1.398) and 855 (61,16%) titles with partially/fully open access and 543 (38,84%) with restricted access were identified. The data obtained shows that the CAPES Journals Portal initiative, in the field of Clinical Medicine, has been gradually adopted, with the aim of fully opening up access to journals in line with the prerogatives established by the national and international Open Access movement. Finally, there is a high degree of compatibility between CAPES' commitment, which encompasses the notion of a democratic ecosystem for scientific communication, discourse and practices in favor of Citizen Science, and adherence to the Open Science movement.
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Asubiaro, Toluwase Victor. "Sub-Saharan Africa's biomedical journal coverage in scholarly databases: a comparison of Web of Science, Scopus, EMBASE, MEDLINE, African Index Medicus, and African Journals Online." Journal of the Medical Library Association 111, no. 3 (2023): 696–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2023.1448.
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Objective: This study aims to find out the coverage of biomedical journals published in Sub-Saharan Africa in four authoritative international databases-Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE and EMBASE and two Africa-focused scholarly databases-Africa Journals Online (AJOL) and African Index Medicus (AIM). Methods: Lists of active journals that are published in the 46 Sub-Saharan African countries were retrieved from the Ulrich periodical directory to create master journal lists. Unique journals from other databases that were not found in Ulrich were added to the master journal list. The six databases included in this study were searched for journals on the master lists. Results: Only 23 of the 46 Sub-Saharan African countries had at least one biomedical journal. Only about one-quarter (152) of the 560 biomedical journals from Sub-Saharan Africa were found in at least one of the biomedical databases. South African journals accounted for more than 50% of all the Sub-Saharan journals in the international scholarly databases. AJOL contains the highest number of biomedical journals from Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Scopus and EMBASE. AJOL asserts its importance by covering the highest number of unique journals and having a representative number of journals in all biomedical sub-disciplines. Conclusion: The majority of studies from Sub-Saharan Africa are left out when biomedical evidence-based researchers only retrieve studies from authoritative international databases. Searching Google Scholar and the African research databases of AJOL and AIM would increase the number of studies from the region.
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Shah, Jay N. "‘Author and Authorship’ in Scientific Journals." Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpahs.v1i1.13006.
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Vennu, Vishal, Aqeel M. Alenazi, Tariq Ahmed Abdulrahman, and Saad M. Bindawas. "The quantity of health-related article publications from universities in Saudi Arabia: A bibliometric analysis, 2008–2017." Science Progress 104, no. 1 (2021): 003685042110005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00368504211000509.
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Several studies have summarized the biomedical publications in Arab countries. However, the quantity of health-related article publications from universities in recent years in Saudi Arabia is unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to perform a bibliometric analysis that showcases the quantitative health-related article publications output from universities in Saudi Arabia between 2008 and 2017. An extensive literature search was conducted using the PubMed database. The search was limited to original research articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses published in the English language reporting on humans from medicine and health sciences colleges by researchers affiliated with any university in Saudi Arabia between January 2008 and December 2017. A total of 3172 articles were found published between January 2008 and December 2017. The number of publication output increased significantly ( p = 0.0027) from 73 (2.3%) in 2008 to 721 (22.7%) in 2017. The highest quantity of publications came from the Riyadh region ( n = 2257), specifically King Saud University ( n = 1538). Of specific journals, the BioMed Central journals published the most articles by Saudi Arabian researchers ( n = 112). The total number of publications increased from 2% to 24.8% by region. However, approximately 80% of the papers were published in journals with an impact factor (IF) <3. Around 3.8% of the papers were published in journals that had an IF ≥6 and has increased significantly ( p = 0.030) from 0% to 1.2% in the past decade. The journal with the highest IF that published a high quantity of articles was the American Journal of Human Genetics. This study has identified a continuous significant increase in the publication of health-related articles from universities in Saudi Arabia. This study extended our knowledge of the quantity of scientific productivity in the field of medicine and health sciences over a recent decade.
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Ezema, Ifeanyi Jonas, and Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha. "Citation impact of health and medical journals in Africa: does open accessibility matter?" Electronic Library 35, no. 5 (2017): 934–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-11-2016-0245.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether open accessibility of medical journals published in Africa may influence journals’ citation impact. Design/methodology/approach An evaluative informetric research approach was used to compare 134 health and medical (H&M) journals hosted in the African Journals Online (AJOL) database. Harzing’s Publish or Perish (PoP) software was used to extract the following publication and citation data from Google Scholar: citation counts, number of papers and the h-index of the journals. Three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Findings A total of 65 open access (OA) and 69 non-OA H&M journals of African origin were found in AJOL. Only 20 African countries have journals hosted in AJOL, with more than 53% of them from Nigeria and 13.4% from South Africa. Findings reveal that non-OA H&M journals performed poorly in terms of citations compared with their OA counterparts. The t-test analysis revealed high significant difference in the citations and research impacts of OA and non-OA H&M journals published in Africa. Practical implications The study will assist in collection development in medical and health libraries globally and in Africa particularly. The study will also be a useful guide to journal publishers, health researchers and health workers providing information on where to publish and the journals to subscribe. Social implications Apart from adding to the body of knowledge in scholarly communication in Africa, this study will go a long way in influencing policies in H&M research in Africa. Originality/value AJOL is the only online database hosting journals from all countries in Africa. Unfortunately, the quality and research impact of the journals in the database have not been adequately investigated. The paper adopted an informetric approach to evaluate H&M journals in Africa so as to provide wider insight on the contents and quality of the journals hosted in it.
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Kim, Eungi, and Da-Yeong Jeong. "Dominant Characteristics of Subject Categories in a Multiple-Category Hierarchical Scheme: A Case Study of Scopus." Publications 11, no. 4 (2023): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications11040051.
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The Scopus journal classification method, known as All Science Journal Classification (ASJC), follows a hierarchical organization of subject categories: minor, major, and supergroups. At the minor level, journals are assigned to one or more subject categories. We refer to this classification scheme as a multiple-category hierarchical scheme. The objective of this study is to investigate the dominant characteristics of subject categories within the Scopus database and quantify their dominance using various subject indices. To conduct the study, we formulated a set of subject category indices, including the Number of Journals (J), Total Instances of Subject Categories (SC), Number of Unique Subject Categories (USC), and Dominance Index (DOMI). The results showed that high DOMI values in subject categories indicate specialization and limited associations with other fields. There were minimal correlations between DOMI and other subject category indices like J, SC, and USC, demonstrating their uniqueness and independence. The study also revealed that subject categories within the Health Sciences exhibited higher DOMI values and greater specialization compared to those in the Physical Sciences, indicating a pronounced dominance in Health Sciences minor categories. Finally, minor subject categories exhibited more variation in subject category indices compared to their upper-level subject categories, highlighting the intricate variations within the hierarchical system of the Scopus classification. These findings have implications for researchers, emphasizing the need to consider a subject category’s dominance and associations when selecting journals for their research.
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Li, Meina, Xiaodong Liu, and Lulu Zhang. "Health sciences journals: an overview of outputs by Chinese authors." Health Information & Libraries Journal 32, no. 4 (2015): 255–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hir.12112.
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Weller, Ann C. "Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Indexed Health Sciences Electronic Journals." JAMA 287, no. 21 (2002): 2865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.287.21.2865.
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Inocian, Edsel. "Transforming the Future of Medical and Allied Health Publications: Introducing the International Journal of Medicine and Health Innovations Perspectives (IJOMAHIP)." Transforming the Future of Medical and Allied Health Publications: Introducing the International Journal of Medicine and Health Innovations Perspectives (IJOMAHIP) 1, no. 1 (2025): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.69481/ijomahip2751.
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We have taken a novel approach to starting a new journal that differs from conventional journals in a number of significant aspects. Dedicated to multidisciplinary research, IJOMAHIP promotes innovation, global knowledge exchange, and collaboration among researchers, clinicians, educators, healthcare practitioners, and policymakers in the medical and allied health sciences through timely peer review and open access. Together with the other journals affiliated with the Virtual Realia Organization, we are starting an exciting journey to transform the publishing landscape of medical and allied health sciences with the launch of the International Journal of Medicine and Allied Health Innovations Perspectives (IJOMAHIP). Our goal is to position IJOMAHIP as a premier platform that encourages innovation and cooperation within the international medical community in addition to disseminating state-of-the-art research. By adopting an innovative approach, we diverge from traditional journals through our commitment to interdisciplinary research, open access, and rapid peer review, ensuring that our publication remains at the forefront of medical and health sciences advancements. Our objective is to increase understanding in the domains of health sciences and medicine by encouraging creativity, promoting international information sharing, and aiding in the joint endeavors of researchers everywhere. Our goal is to establish a forum where many stakeholders may exchange their work, advance knowledge, and work together to address urgent healthcare issues. IJOMAHIP publishes innovative research in a variety of medical and health disciplines. Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Laboratory Science, Clinical Medicine, Health Care Policies, One Health and Global Health, Nursing, Public Health, Pharmaceutical, Rehabilitation, and Translational Sciences are just a few of the areas that fall under our purview. Furthermore, we support multidisciplinary research that tackles current healthcare issues, demonstrating our dedication to all-encompassing and holistic healthcare solutions. We at IJOMAHIP are dedicated to upholding the strictest guidelines for ethical publishing and scientific rigor. Only submissions' scientific validity is taken into consideration while making editing choices. A scientifically solid research question, appropriate methodology and analysis, and adherence to community-agreed standards pertinent to the research field are all part of this for research publications. We ensure that all published content is supported by strong scientific evidence by not basing editorial decisions on a study's potential impact or level of interest. Our double-blind peer review procedure guarantees the anonymity of both authors and reviewers during the assessment process. We look for the professional assistance of highly published scholars in the relevant domains worldwide. In addition to other pertinent ethical norms that apply to medicine and health science research, we follow the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Adopting an open-access paradigm improves accessibility and collaboration globally by guaranteeing that every published work is freely accessible to users everywhere. Our objective is to establish a platform where researchers, doctors, and educators can exchange their work, improve knowledge, and work together to address urgent healthcare issues. We extend an invitation to researchers, clinicians, educators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers worldwide to participate in this fascinating project. Let us work together to push the boundaries of medicine and health sciences with creative research, cooperative discussion, and a dedication to quality. On our website and social media pages, you may find information about upcoming issues, editorial policies, and submission procedures. Your input and involvement in influencing the direction of publishing in the medical and health sciences are much anticipated.
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Trajkovski, Vladimir. "How to establish electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country." Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences 1, no. 1 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/jhrs.1.1.1-11.
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Introduction: publishing an electronic, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal in a small country is really hard work. The advancement of electronic journals during recent years has given professionals in academia a powerful new tool to support learning and research.
 The purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines about creating electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country through the example of Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
 Methods: An analysis of relevant literature, sources from the Internet and published literature, personal experience and observations of the author as editor-in-chief in two similar journals previously.
 Findings: a new modern academic journal should be open access, peer-reviewed, with international editorial board, having staff who work very dedicatedly. The journal should be set it up on OJS platform, using Creative Commons license for authors and DOI numbers for the articles. Plagiarism detection is a prevention of publication ethics violation. Journal editors should make additional efforts to index journal in lot of scholarly databases and to intend to increase the visibility. Sharing journal content on social media has become an important instrument and platform for editors and researchers as well.
 Conclusions: Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed, international, electronic journal. Editorial office expects your submitted articles in the following weeks and months.
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Trajkovski, Vladimir. "How to establish electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country." Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences 1, no. 1 (2023): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.33700/jhrs.1.1.1-11.
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<strong>Introduction</strong>: publishing an electronic, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal in a small country is really hard work. The advancement of electronic journals during recent years has given professionals in academia a powerful new tool to support learning and research. The purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines about creating electronic, scholarly, open access and peer-reviewed journal in small country through the example of Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. <strong>Methods</strong>: An analysis of relevant literature, sources from the Internet and published literature, personal experience and observations of the author as editor-in-chief in two similar journals previously. <strong>Findings</strong>: a new modern academic journal should be open access, peer-reviewed, with international editorial board, having staff who work very dedicatedly. The journal should be set it up on OJS platform, using Creative Commons license for authors and DOI numbers for the articles. Plagiarism detection is a prevention of publication ethics violation. Journal editors should make additional efforts to index journal in lot of scholarly databases and to intend to increase the visibility. Sharing journal content on social media has become an important instrument and platform for editors and researchers as well. <strong>Conclusions</strong>: Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (JHRS) is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed, international, electronic journal. Editorial office expects your submitted articles in the following weeks and months.
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FERRARI, Carlos Kusano Bucalen. "CLONE AND GHOST PERIODICALS: CASE STUDIES AND CRITICAL REVIEW OF PREDATORY JOURNALS!" Boletim de Conjuntura (BOCA) 11, no. 33 (2022): 01–15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7059065.
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With the unbridled creation of new scientific journals several fraudulent journals have emerged. The aim of this work was to perform a mini-narrative review of clone and ghost periodicals and teach rules to ensure publication in suitable journals. In relation to the number of ghost journals, the health area represents the second place, behind only the human and social sciences. A considerable part of people is unaware of both ghost and cloned journals. Essential elements to avoid submitting and publishing articles in these journals include making sure that it is an indexed, legitimate journal (true website), with defined scope, editorial board and peer review and transparency about the editorial process and costs (or gratuity) of open access. It is necessary that a national policy of research ethics includes professional training in ethics in publications and establishes mechanisms to control the practices of scientific misconduct of those involved.
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Horta-Martínez, Lázaro Ernesto, and Melissa Sorá-Rodriguez. "Scientific production on fractures in student scientific journals in the five-year period 2017-2022." Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation / Rehabilitacion Interdisciplinaria 3 (December 28, 2023): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.56294/ri202365.
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Introduction: The migration of printed science to the digital format has caused an increase in the number of journals, which causes an increase in interest in the study of their operation, not only as a task for editorial committees but also for scientists, librarians, and students.Objective: to characterize the scientific production on fractures in Cuban student journals of health sciences in the five-year period 2017-2022.Methods: A metric study was carried out on the scientific production about fractures in Cuban student scientific journals of health sciences during the five-year period 2017-2022. 13 journals of this type, included in the National Registry of Health Sciences Serials, were examined.Results: A total of 10 articles divided into the types of original article, review article and case presentation were collected. The years of greatest scientific production were 2021 and 2022 with n=4 in each case; the journals Universidad Médica Pinareña and 16 de abril were the leaders in terms of manuscripts published with n=3 each. The longest average time for sending the manuscript and its subsequent acceptance was in 2019 with 14 months.Conclusions: The scientific production on fractures in student journals is low, characterized by a predominance of original articles of a cross-sectional descriptive type, in Spanish with multiple authorship without international collaboration, frequently with male authors and affiliation with Universities of Medical Sciences and a mean acceptance time of 4.7 months.
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Holmberg, Kim, Juha Hedman, Timothy D. Bowman, Fereshteh Didegah, and Mikael Laakso. "Do articles in open access journals have more frequent altmetric activity than articles in subscription-based journals? An investigation of the research output of Finnish universities." Scientometrics 122, no. 1 (2019): 645–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03301-x.
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AbstractScientific articles available in Open Access (OA) have been found to attract more citations and online attention to the extent that it has become common to speak about OA Altmetrics Advantage. This research investigates how the OA Altmetrics Advantage holds for a specific case of research articles, namely the research outputs from universities in Finland. Furthermore, this research examines disciplinary and platform specific differences in that (dis)advantage. The new methodological approaches developed in this research focus on relative visibility, i.e. how often articles in OA journals receive at least one mention on the investigated online platforms, and relative receptivity, i.e. how frequently articles in OA journals gain mentions in comparison to articles in subscription-based journals. The results show significant disciplinary and platform specific differences in the OA advantage, with articles in OA journals within for instance veterinary sciences, social and economic geography and psychology receiving more citations and attention on social media platforms, while the opposite was found for articles in OA journals within medicine and health sciences. The results strongly support field- and platform-specific considerations when assessing the influence of journal OA status on altmetrics. The new methodological approaches used in this research will serve future comparative research into OA advantage of scientific articles over time and between countries.
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Idhris, Mohamed, Abdurahiman Pattukuthu, Manuelraj Peter, Spurgeon Anandraj Samuel, Abdul Jaleel Pottachola, and Helan Petricia Devasagayam. "Global evolution of nanotechnology research with special emphasis on health sciences : A bibliometric approach." COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 18, no. 1 (2024): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.47974/cjsim-2022-0070.
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Purpose: The scientific impact of every scientific publication is widely measured through bibliometric analysis. In this article we have conducted evidence-based bibliometric analysis of articles on nanotechnology. Literature on nanotechnology applications that has been published in journals across all fields of science and technology. The data is retrived from Medline database via Pubmed., Total 267 publications were retrieved and analyzed, The New England Journal of Medicine achieved the highest citation, “Corcoy Rosa” is the most productive author. Most of the publications are classified as Randomized controlled trials, despite this, there hasn’t been a lot of indepth research on the publication trends of nanotechnology in journals of the health sciences. Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the publication trends in the field of Nanotechnology with special emphasis on health sciences. Methods: The data was acquired from the MEDLINE database via PubMed on January 4, 2021, covering the years 2001 through 2020. The articles were sorted according to the Publication Type, Number of Publications (Pub), Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) and Total Citations (TC) influence. The tables are created in excel spread sheet which is download from “iCite” tool. Highly cited journals and author tables are created usning “VOS Viewer” visualization bibliometric tool. Findings: A total number of 267 records were retrieved, and a systematic review was carried out over 20 years between 2001 and 2020. The total number of RCR and citations are 545.44 and 5307 respectively. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) received more citation which is n=214. “Corcoy Rosa” was the most productive author during the study period, with n=9 publications with 608 citations aggregated. Most of the publications are classified as Randomized controlled trials, which account for 37% of all publications retrieved. The year 2019 has the most publications, with a total of n=29. European countries have leading publications and authors in this field of research; however, the rest of the world needs to apply more concentration to improve the development of this field. Limitations: The study was limited to twenty years period from 2001 to 2020, and the data was obtained from single database PubMed.
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Cortes, Maria Carolina, Luis Vicente Gonzalez, Laura H. Gunn, et al. "Assessment of Research Topic Prevalence by Journal Impact Quartile in Oral Health Sciences Using Bayesian Methods." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (2021): 215824402110318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211031868.
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The relationship between research topics and academic prestige of journals is of relevance to assess venues for current research as well as trending areas of new research. This is of special relevance for those developing a research agenda or with defined productivity outcome expectations. This manuscript extracts prevalent topics using titles and abstracts from more than 10,000 manuscripts, constituting all published research in International Scientific Indexing (ISI) journals within the oral health specialties of oral surgery, orthodontics, and periodontics during 2018. Journals are clustered across four quartile categories according to their impact factors. The novelty of our work includes (a) an examination of a neglected unit of analysis (bigram) in oral health sciences which is of higher relevance than single-word topic definitions and (b) the use of an efficient Bayesian hierarchical approach to extract and rank topics across quartiles with information borrowing. Some topics persisted across quartile groups, while others show higher prevalence in specific quartiles, indicating that topics may find some journal quartiles a more appropriate venue for publication. All quartile groups show a prevalence of empirical research. The approach described in this manuscript offers the possibility to adjust/generate research agendas based on research topic prevalence and dynamics. This methodology is relevant for researchers looking to define their research agendas with potential outcomes aligned with the expectations of quantity and quartile set by their home institutions. It also serves researchers to assess most likely quartiles for publication of their work.
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Chang, Lee Wei, Azrin Md Kasim, Nuratiqah Mohamad Norpi, and Norshahzila Idris. "Research Classification using the Malaysian Research and Development Classification System (MRDCS)." Journal of Research Management and Governance 5, no. 1 (2023): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jrmg.vol5no1.4.
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Classifying research projects or research publication into research areas is crucial in many statistical analyses including for example in bibliometric analysis. Research publication classification usually takes place at the level of journals, where subject categories based on available databases like the Web of Science or SciVal are some of the popular classification systems. However, journal-level classification systems have limitation especially when classifying multidisciplinary journals. To overcome this limitation, it is suggested that a classification system that can classify research be constructed based on the areas of research proposals and their related publications. Successful grant applications/research projects and their publications were clustered into research areas based on the Malaysian Research and Development Classification System (MRDCS) (6th Edition). A total of 1738 research projects managed by Universiti Malaya’s Research Cluster from year 2015 to 2017 were mapped. The strengths and the limitations of the proposed classification system are also discussed. Results indicate that out of the 20 research categories, Medical and Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics, Business and Management, Humanities, and Engineering and Technology emerge as the top five research categories with the highest critical mass value based on the number of projects. Classification mapping also found Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences, Material Sciences, Social Sciences, and Applied Sciences and Technologies to be the top five research categories that produced the highest number of outputs in terms of publications.
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Griffin, JoAnne, and Frances Foret. "Reducing Journal Stacks: How Tufts University's Hirsh Health Sciences Library Made Electronic Journals Work for Them." Serials Librarian 61, no. 3-4 (2011): 430–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2011.591178.
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Brennan, Martin J., Julie M. Hurd, Deborah D. Blecic, and Ann C. Weller. "A Snapshot of Early Adopters of E-journals: Challenges to the Library." College & Research Libraries 63, no. 6 (2002): 515–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.63.6.515.
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Studies documenting the usage patterns of electronic journals have compared print and e-journal characteristics, surveyed faculty for their perceptions and expectations, and analyzed the impact on library practices. This study, a qualitative exploration of a wide array of issues related to the research and teaching habits of early adopters of e-journals in a research setting, was conducted in the spring of 2001 with faculty in the basic and health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Open-ended questionnaires provided a framework to wide-ranging discussions of perceptions, expectations, and changing practices pertaining to e-journals and other electronic resources. The results were analyzed with a specific focus on shared behaviors and values, discipline-dependent variations, and changing research and teaching habits. Several challenges for library resources and services are identified and discussed.
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Khan, Fahad, Yasmeen Taj, Arif Ali, et al. "RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY." Professional Medical Journal 22, no. 03 (2015): 359–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.03.1356.
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Research training at higher education level for clinical and teaching staff isimportant and there are methods to introduce research culture in employees at clinical andteaching departmental level. Objectives: To recognize and quantify the research productivitystatus of teaching and clinical faculty of (DUHS) Dow University of Health Sciences Karachibefore and after its establishment in 2003. Design: Non experimental cross sectional study.Period: 1st October 2012 to 1st February 2013. Setting: Medical college Karachi. Subjects andmethod: Students of third semester were applied to sort out the ten years record from 1998 to2008 of all researches conducted by faculty of Dow University of Health Sciences, published ininternational and national journals by using different online search engines. Research Outputwas measured in terms of the increase in the number of publications and quality of publicationsbefore and after the launch of Dow University. Data was entered in Microsoft office excel version2007 and analyzed it in statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17; Pearson chisquarewas applied to test the statistical significance at 95% confidence interval. Results: Dataof total 594 researches was found out between the years1998 to 2008, 175(29.5%) researcheswere published before the foundation of Dow university of Health sciences Karachi (2003)while 419(70.5) researches were produced after 173(45.6%) research papers were published inindexed journals before, “whereas” 206(54.4%) were published in indexed journal after 2003.Original research articles were 152 (31%) before 2003, which rose to 339 (69%). Publications ofarticle types such as case reports, case series, and short communication, editorials and reviewarticles also increased to 80 from 23 after establishment of Dow University. Conclusions: Froma total of 594 faculty researches o published in indexed and non indexed journals betweenthe years 1998 and 2008; there was a significant increase in production after establishment ofDow university of Health Sciences Hence it is confidently reported that due to establishmentof research committees after the founding, there is a promotion and facilitation of researchactivities among faculty members.
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Oh, Juyeon, Hyejung Chang, Jung A. Kim, et al. "Citation Analysis for Biomedical and Health Sciences Journals Published in Korea." Healthcare Informatics Research 23, no. 3 (2017): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2017.23.3.218.
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