Analysis of citing journals and cited journals of 3 core parasitological jour-nals / 中国血吸虫病防治杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the achievement exchange and interpenetration situation between parasitological jour?nals and the journals of other disciplines. Methods The citing journals and cited journals of Chinese parasitological journals were analyzed. Three Chinese core journals namely Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control and Chinese Journal of Zoonoses were selected as the study objects. The number and citation times of citing and cited journals from 2002 to 2012 were collected from CNKI. These journals were classified according to China Journal Citation Reports-Expand 2013 and analyzed by the method of bibliometrics. Results The number of published pa?pers in Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control and Chinese Journal of Zoonoses were 1 160 1 541 and 2 494 from 2002 to 2012 respectively. The numbers of citing journals of the 3 above journals included by the citation reports were 496 547 and 592 respectively the total citation frequencies were 4 778 9 547 and 8 301 and the average citation frequencies per paper were 4.12 6.20 and 3.33 respectively. The numbers of the cit?ed journals were 532 407 and 659 respectively the total citation frequencies were 4 470 7 206 and 7 885 and the average citation frequencies per paper were 3.85 4.68 and 3.16 respectively. The top three disciplines of the citing journals and cited journals were medical and health basic science and agricultural sciences and the top three secondary disciplines belonged to medical and health were general medical and health preventive medicine and hygiene and clinical medicine. Conclusion There is an extensive exchange between parasitology journals and other journals which promotes the exchange between parasi?tology and other relevant disciplines.