Bibliometrijska Analiza Člankov in Citatov Revije Zdravstveno Varstvo: 2003 - 2009

Scientific Publishing in the Field of Social Medicine in Slovenia

“…By raising the quality and increasing the impact of the journal ZV in professional circles, motivation and interest to publish in the ZV will grow among experts in the field of public health. This was also confirmed by the bibliometric analysis for the period 2003-2009 when compared with the analysis results for the period 1992-2003 (Miholič, 2005(Miholič, , 2010. With the inclusion of the ZV into SSCI-Expand, the motivation for local authors to publish is greater, as according to the Rules of Indicators and Criteria for Measuring Scientific and Technical Efficiency, publishing is worth points, which the authors will need for scientific and research success in Slovenia.…”

“…Throughout the period analysed for the ZV, the ratio ranged between 2.3 and 3.3. Compared with the ZV analysis for the period 1992-2003 where the ratio ranged between 1.17 and 2.31 (Miholič, 2005), the ratio has increased, reflecting a trend also present in the world (Cronin et al, 2003;Cronin & Franks, 2006); namely, that the authorship of an article belongs to more than one author.…”

“…Similar results were seen in the period 1992-2003, when authors predominantly used literature in English, followed by Slovenian-language literature (Miholič, 20005). The portion of English-language literature was lower (63%) in the period 1992-2003, while the portion of literature in Slovenian was higher (32%) than in the past eight years (Miholič, 2005). In the analysed period 2003-2010, 78% of the cited literature is in English, 21% in Slovenian, while the portion of other languages is very low (1%).…”