Schoonbaert D. "Citation patterns in tropical medicine journals" Tropical Medicine & International Health 9(11):1142-1150, November 2004.

[Eugene Garfield]

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Dirk Schoonbaert : bib at itg.be


Title : Citation patterns in tropical medicine journals

Author(s):  Schoonbaert D

Source:  TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 9 (11): 1142-1150
                NOV 2004

Cited References: 12  Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
Selections of most important journals in the field of tropical medicine have
previously been identified with the help of resources such as
bibliographical and citation databases. This article uses ISI's Journal
Citation Reports (JSR) for 2002 to analyse the citation characteristics of
the Tropical Medicine category. According to these data, this small but
diverse group of 12 journals bestows some 40% more citations than it
receives. Its six typical core journals tend to cite one another heavily,
but they also refer a lot to multidisciplinary science and general medicine
journals, and to infectious diseases and parasitology journals. Looking at
the sources from which JCR's tropic al medicine journals derive their
citations, it is clear that in this reverse direction, the specialty's
literature is still more concentrated. Apart from the typical core, this JCR
category also contains a number of journals with more idiosyncratic citing
patterns, focused on specialties such as paediatrics, a single disease
(leprosy) and a representative of Latin American and Francophone biomedical
science each. Implications of concentrated citedness and language biases are
discussed briefly. This paper features a selection of bibliometric
parameters relating to the tropical medicine journals and lists of the 80
journals most citing and cited by them.

Author Keywords: tropical medicine; biomedical literature; journals;
bibliometrics; citation analysis; Journal Citation Reports

Addresses: Schoonbaert D (reprint author), Inst Trop Med, Natl Str 155,
Antwerp, B-2000 Belgium
Inst Trop Med, Antwerp, B-2000 Belgium

E-mail Addresses:  bib at itg.be <mailto:bib at itg.be>

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ISSN: 1360-2276

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