1. A Bibliometric Analysis of Health and Medical Journals: Issues in Medical Scholarly Communication in Africa
- Author
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Ifeanyi J. Ezema and Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha
- Subjects
CITES ,05 social sciences ,Scopus ,Library science ,Library and Information Sciences ,Bibliometrics ,Scholarly communication ,Publish or perish ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Informetrics ,Citation analysis ,Political science ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,Citation - Abstract
The study was conducted to examine the scholarly impact of health and medical journals in Africa. A descriptive informetric research approach was used to analyze 134 health and medical journals hosted in the African Journal Online (AJOL) database. Harzing's Publish or Perish (PoP) software was used to extract publication and citation indicators of the journals. These indicators include number of citations, number of paper publications, cites per year, cites per paper, and the h-index of the journals. The performance of the journals was equally examined in other major databases like Thomson Reuters and Scopus. Findings reveal that only 20 African countries contributed health and medical journals to the AJOL database, with Nigeria and South Africa producing nearly 70% of the journals. A ranked list of 29 journals was developed, with South African Medical Journal and African Health Sciences ranking highest in the list, respectively. Only 14 of the journals were found in Thompson Reuters, while Scopus...
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- 2016