Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database
Introduction: Indexing of a country’s scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that country’s academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals...
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| author | Shahram Sedghi Somayeh Ghaffari-Heshajin |
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| description | Introduction: Indexing of a country’s scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that country’s academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals written in English that are not indexed in Scopus database with its objective acceptance criteria.
Methods: The current applied descriptive study assessed the latest issues of 52 Iranian medical journals written in English that were not indexed in Scopus database. Data were collected through observing the journals’ websites and using a checklist. The collected data were analyzed in Excel software.
Results: The results showed that 32.7% of the journals did not have foreign editors and 59.6% did not have foreign authors. According to the results, 77.6% of abstracts were structured. In addition, the amount of self-citations was low and more than 70% of journals were being published regularly. The findings also showed that 49% of journals had EndNote output.
Conclusion: The studied journals were favorable in terms of most of the criteria, but required cooperation with foreign editors and writers and more EndNote outputs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-759d59f8a9fa46c2a463bd1ebe6ac2e62022-12-21T21:21:19ZfasVesnu Publicationsمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت1735-78531735-98132017-01-01136426431861Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus DatabaseShahram Sedghi0Somayeh Ghaffari-Heshajin1Associate Professor, Academic Member, Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences, Health Management and Economics Research Center AND Department of Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranMSc, Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences, Department of Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranIntroduction: Indexing of a country’s scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that country’s academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals written in English that are not indexed in Scopus database with its objective acceptance criteria. Methods: The current applied descriptive study assessed the latest issues of 52 Iranian medical journals written in English that were not indexed in Scopus database. Data were collected through observing the journals’ websites and using a checklist. The collected data were analyzed in Excel software. Results: The results showed that 32.7% of the journals did not have foreign editors and 59.6% did not have foreign authors. According to the results, 77.6% of abstracts were structured. In addition, the amount of self-citations was low and more than 70% of journals were being published regularly. The findings also showed that 49% of journals had EndNote output. Conclusion: The studied journals were favorable in terms of most of the criteria, but required cooperation with foreign editors and writers and more EndNote outputs.http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/2870JournalsScopus DatabaseIran |
| spellingShingle | Shahram Sedghi Somayeh Ghaffari-Heshajin Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت Journals Scopus Database Iran |
| title | Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database |
| title_full | Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database |
| title_fullStr | Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database |
| title_short | Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database |
| title_sort | conformity assessment of iranian medical journals written in english with the objective acceptance criteria of journals in the scopus database |
| topic | Journals Scopus Database Iran |
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