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Year:
2008
| Volume: 16
| Issue: 3-4
| Pages: 85-87
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Special Article |
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SUBJECT CATEGORY ONCOLOGY IN JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS 2000-2006: ANALYSIS OF IMPACT FACTOR DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLISHING DATA
Stela Filipi-Matutinovic, Aleksandra Popovic, Sanja Antonic |
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DOI:
10.2298/AOO0804085F |
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Abstract: |
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Impact factor (IF) of journals is assumed an adequate measure of its importance in the scientific communication of a defined subject. It is important to have in mind that IF is varying very much in time. The range of IF for journals classified in the subject group ONCOLOGY is analyzed for the period 2000-2006. There are only seven of 127 journals in year 2006 which have IF higher than 10. highest impact in the analyzed period has the journal CA-CANCERJ CLIN, varying from 24,674 to 63,342, but the important fact about that journal is that it publishes very small number of articles annually. number of journals on the list also changed from 103 in 2000 to 127 in year 2006. Only one journal from the list is published in German and five are multilingual, all the rest are published in English language. Besides US (66), Great Britain (29), Holland (7), and Switzerland (6), all other 11 countries have few journals, mostly situated in the last part of the list ranked by IF. When choosing where to publish their results, scientists should consider all available facts about a journal - from its IF and the way it changes with time, to its openness, availability in libraries and on the WWW, possibility to keep author rights and put the article in an open access repository, where it will get more attention from authors that do not have access to that journal, etc. |
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Key words:
Oncology, Medical; Periodicals as Topic; Bibliometrics; Quality Control |
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