ABS: Pinaud, The impact factor of anaesthesia an d intensive care journals

[Benoît Godin]

The IF of a journal is not the IF of an article: this is a well know fact.
We also know that the correlation between the two is high however: you get
more chance of being cited if you publish in Science than in Revue francaise
de Bibliometrie.

The lesson is therefore to consider the IF, when applied to articles, as a
measure of the EXPECTED citations or, more sociologically, as a measure of
the effort a researcher do to publish in "good" journals.

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Benoît Godin
Professeur
INRS
Observatoire des sciences et des technologies
e-mail: benoit_godin at inrs-urb.uquebec.ca
http://www.ost.qc.ca



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TITLE   :       The << impact factor >> of anaesthesia and intensive care
journals.
AUTHOR: Pinaud M, Otteni JC
JOURNAL:        ANNALES FRANCAISES D ANESTHESIE ET DE REANIMATION 19: (6)
492-497 JUN 2000

 Document type: Article    Language: French    Cited References: 29    Times
Cited: 0

Abstract:
The <<impact factor>> (IF) of scientific journals is defined as the number
of citations obtained over a one-year period of articles
published during the two previous years in a journal, divided by the number
of articles published in that journal during the
preceding two years. The IF, initially devised as an indicator of the
quality of a journal, is at present mainly considered as an
indicator of the quality of an article contained in that journal. However
the IF of a journal is not equivalent to the actual impact of
an article. Therefore the IF is not an accurate tool for assessment of the
scientific quality of the author of that article.

The Ifs of journals published in English are significantly higher than the
Ifs of those in another language, mainly as English is the
language used for international communication and as English speaking
authors rarely cite articles published in another language,
The IF of the journal of the French society for anaesthesiology and
intensive care, the Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de
reanimation (Afar), is about seven times below the IF of Anesthesiology,
which has the highest IF in the category
<<Anesthesiology>>. From 1992 to 1998, the relative impact value of the Afar
has increased by 429%. However the absolute
value remains low. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier
SAS.

Author Keywords:
impact factor

KeyWords Plus:
IMPACT FACTOR, SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, CITATION ANALYSIS, MEDICAL JOURNALS,
SCIENCE,
QUALITY, INDEX, FREQUENCY, SOCIETY, TOOL

Addresses:
Pinaud M, CHRU, Serv Anesthesie REanimat Chirurg, F-44093 Nantes 1, France.
CHRU, Serv Anesthesie REanimat Chirurg, F-44093 Nantes 1, France.
Hop Hautepierre, Serv Anesthesie Reanimat Chirurg, F-67098 Strasbourg,
France.

Publisher:
EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER, PARIS CEDEX 15

IDS Number:
349BB

ISSN:
0750-7658

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