Top 50 medical journals from Balkan countries: A bibliometric analysis, 2000–2020

Q2 Social Sciences

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI:10.3897/ese.2021.e64274

Okan Aydoğan, Gizem Kayan-Tekaüt

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Background: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) is one of the most important indexes that medical journals aspire to be covered by. Currently, SCIE indexes 14,840 peer-reviewed journals across 178 disciplines. Among these journals are 3445 medical journals, divided into more than 40 subject categories. Objectives: To reveal the impact and contribution of medical journals from Balkan countries through the Journal Impact Factor of those journals, the number of articles published by them, and the number of times those articles have been cited. Methods: Balkan countries are countries that fall or fully or partly within the Balkan peninsula. All medical journals from those countries listed in the SCIE were ranked based on cumulative citations between 2000 and 2020. Among them, the top 50 journals in terms of cumulative citations were chosen for the study, which analysed the data on 129,259 research articles and reviews that covered 27 different subject categories within the broad field of medicine. The countries were Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey Results: The top 50 journals included those published from eight Balkan countries. Turkey had the most journals (21) in the Web of Science (WoS) and Greece had 13 but, when ranked in terms of the number of journals in WoS per million people, Croatia topped the list, with 1.22 journals per million of its population, followed by Greece (1.21 journals). The top-cited journals were Anticancer Research (206,226 citations), International Journal of Oncology (171,654), Oncology Reports (157,467), Molecular Medicine Reports (82,009), and Oncology Letters (69,161). Oncology was the most cited subject category and Croatia, the country with maximum interaction with other Balkan countries, that is, papers in Croatian journals cited journals published from the maximum number of Balkan counties. Conclusion: The study provides insights into the last two decades of progress in academic publishing and in the performances of medical journals published from Balkan countries.

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巴尔干国家50大医学期刊:文献计量分析，2000-2020年

背景：科学引文索引扩展（SCIE）是医学期刊最重要的索引之一。目前，SCIE索引了178个学科的14840种同行评审期刊。在这些期刊中，有3445种医学期刊，分为40多个学科类别。目的：通过巴尔干国家医学期刊的期刊影响因子、发表的文章数量以及这些文章被引用的次数，揭示这些期刊的影响和贡献。方法：巴尔干国家是指完全或部分落入巴尔干半岛的国家。SCIE中列出的这些国家的所有医学期刊都是根据2000年至2020年间的累计引文进行排名的。其中，该研究选择了累计引用量排名前50的期刊，分析了129259篇研究文章和综述的数据，这些文章和综述涵盖了医学领域的27个不同学科类别。这些国家是波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、克罗地亚、希腊、北马其顿、罗马尼亚、塞尔维亚、斯洛文尼亚和土耳其。结果：排名前50的期刊包括来自八个巴尔干国家的期刊。土耳其在科学网（WoS）中拥有最多的期刊（21种），希腊有13种，但根据每百万人在科学网中的期刊数量排名，克罗地亚位居榜首，每百万人口拥有1.22种期刊，其次是希腊（1.21种期刊）。被引用最多的期刊是《抗癌研究》（206226次引用）、《国际肿瘤学杂志》（171654次）、《肿瘤学报告》（157467次），《分子医学报告》（82009次）和《肿瘤学快报》（69161次）。肿瘤学是被引用最多的学科类别，克罗地亚是与其他巴尔干国家互动最多的国家，也就是说，克罗地亚期刊上的论文引用了巴尔干国家最多的期刊。结论：这项研究深入了解了过去二十年巴尔干国家学术出版和医学期刊的表现。

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