Jones AW "Creme de la creme in forensic science and legal medicine - the most highly cited articles, authors and journals 1981-2003" International Journal of Legal Medicine 119(2):59-65, March 2005.

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: wayne.jones at RMV.se

Title: Creme de la creme in forensic science and legal medicine - The most
highly cited articles, authors and journals 1981-2003

Author(s): Jones AW

Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE 119 (2): 59-65 MAR 2005

Document Type: Review
Language: English
Cited References: 31      Times Cited: 1


Abstract:
The importance and prestige of a scientific journal is increasingly being
judged by the number of times the articles it publishes are cited or
referenced in articles published in other scientific journals. Citation
counting is also used to assess the merits of individual scientists when
academic promotion and tenure are decided. With the help of Thomson,
Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson ISI) a citation database was
created for six leading forensic science and legal medicine journals. This
database was used to determine the most highly cited articles, authors,
journals and the most prolific authors of articles in the forensic
sciences. The forensic science and legal medicine journals evaluated were:
Journal of Forensic Sciences (JFS), Forensic Science International (FSI),
International Journal of Legal Medicine (IJLM), Medicine, Science and the
Law (MSL), American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (AJFMP), and
Science and Justice (S&J). The resulting forensics database contained
14,210 papers published between 1981 and 2003. This in-depth bibliometric
analysis has identified the creme de la creme in forensic science and legal
medicine in a quantitative and objective way by citation analysis with
focus on articles, authors and journals


Addresses: Jones AW (reprint author), Linkoping Univ Hosp, Dept Forens
Toxicol, Linkoping, S-58185 Sweden
Linkoping Univ Hosp, Dept Forens Toxicol, Linkoping, S-58185 Sweden

E-mail Addresses: wayne.jones at RMV.se

Publisher: SPRINGER, 233 SPRING STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA
Subject Category: MEDICINE, LEGAL
IDS Number: 903KV
ISSN: 0937-9827

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