Fernandez-Llimos, F; Mendes, AM. 2010. SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS By Acta Medica Portuguesa Authors. ACTA MEDICA PORTUGUESA 23 (4): 561-56

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Fernandez-Llimos, F; Mendes, AM. 2010. SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN 
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS By Acta Medica Portuguesa Authors. ACTA MEDICA 
PORTUGUESA 23 (4): 561-566.

Author Full Name(s): Fernandez-Llimos, Fernando; Mendes, Ana Maria
Language: Portuguese
Document Type: Article

Abstract: Local and national scientific journals have been widely criticized by 
some authors. Additionally, they are quite rarely indexed at international 
databases, which results in a reduced visibility of their articles.
Objective: To analyze international scientific productions of authors publishing 
in Acta Medica Portuguesa during 2008.
Methods: A database with all the authors publishing in Acta Medica Portuguesa 
in 2008 was built. In July 2009, production of all those authors from the 
previous five years (20032007) was retrieved from Science Citation Index. 
Journals where they published, Impact Factors of those journals, articles' 
references, and times cited were analyzed.
Results: The 78 articles published by Acta Medica Portuguesa in 2008 were 
produced by 259 different authors. Ninety four (36.3%) of those authors wrote 
420 articles from 2003 to 2007 indexed at Science Citation Index. These 
articles were published in 249 different journals, with an average Impact Factor 
of 2.973 (SD = 2.92). Journal with highest Impact Factor was The Lancet 
(IF2008 = 28.409) with two papers published. Eighty seven of those authors 
received some citation to their articles, with a total amount of 5001 cites. Out 
of the 14035 references on those 420 articles, only 10 cited any article 
published in Acta Medica Portuguesa.
Conclusion: Authors publishing in Acta Medica Portuguesa produce a good 
amount of international publications in journals with an acceptable Impact 
Factor and they receive quite a good number of citations. Conversely, these 
authors when publishing in international journals have an extremely low citation 
of articles published in Acta Medica Portuguesa.

Addresses: [Fernandez-Llimos, Fernando; Mendes, Ana Maria] Univ Lisbon, 
Subgrp Sociofarm, Fac Farm, P-1699 Lisbon, Portugal

Reprint Address: Fernandez-Llimos, F, Univ Lisbon, Subgrp Sociofarm, Fac Farm, 
P-1699 Lisbon, Portugal.

ISSN: 1646-0758
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