Citation indexing and the development of academic journals in tropical medicine

A Bibliometric Analysis of Health and Medical Journals: Issues in Medical Scholarly Communication in Africa

“…Bibliometric studies are generally used to evaluate the research productivity of a geographical area, institution, journals, or an individual author. This has been applied in health and medical journals to determine productivity in HIV/AIDS (Onyancha, 2008;Rosas et Al, 2011), biomedical research in Nigeria (Nwagwu, 2005 and2006), tropical medicine research (Falagas, Karavasiou & Bliziotis, 2006;Smith, 2008), cardiovascular disease research (Rosmarakis et al, 2005), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Gu, Yuan, Yang, Qi, Jin, Yan, 2015), homeopathy research productivity (Chiu & Ho, 2005), and preventive, occupational, environmental medicine and public health (Smith, 2010). It has also been applied in evaluation of health and medical research in some countries such as Nepal (Simkhada, Baral & Teijlingen, 2010), Kenya, and South Africa (Onyancha & Ocholla, 2007).…”

Evolution of coauthorship networks: worldwide scientific production on leishmaniasis

“…Similarly, the fi eld examines scientifi c agents that produce, transmit, and use the body of research, analyzing their visibility and impact in subsequent literature 4 . Smith 5 reviewed the main bibliometric studies that have analyzed the area of tropical medicine throughout the past several decades; these studies are generally focused on the study of scientifi c production, citation, or the impact factor of the journals in the fi eld. Recently, different papers have examined the scientifi c production specifi c to leishmaniasis [6][7][8] .…”

A 30-Year Citation Analysis of Bibliometric Trends at theArchives of Environmental Health, 1975–2004

“…28 Citation analysis was also being undertaken in the field of tropical medicine during the 1970s, 29 a trend that would continue in later years. [30][31][32][33] In 1981, Pearson 34 published his citation analysis of drug information services activity between 1961 and 1979. In the same year, citation analysis was conducted in some of the smaller, specialist disciplines.…”