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The aim of this paper is to present the bibliometric indicators for Revista Española de Cardiologíathat were obtained from the "Potential impact factor of Spanish medical journals in 2001" study financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte. Citations to Revista Española de Cardiología, its national and international impact factor, and its immediacy index were calculated with methods similar to those used by the Institute for Scientific Information. National indicators were based only on citations from 87 Spanish journals considered source journals, whereas international indicators were calculated on the basis of citations from both national journals and foreign source journals in the Science Citation Index. Revista Española de Cardiologíaobtained a national impact factor of 0.719 and an international impact factor of 0.837, placing it at the head of the ranking of Spanish medical journals.
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Cardiology , Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Publishing/statistics & numerical data , Bibliometrics , Internationality , SpainABSTRACT
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los indicadores bibliométricos de REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA obtenidos del estudio «Factor de impacto potencial de las revistas médicas españolas en 2001», financiado por el Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte español. Siguiendo una metodología similar a la que emplea el Institute for Scientific Information, se han obtenido las citas de REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA y su factor de impacto e índice de inmediatez nacionales e internacionales. Los indicadores nacionales tienen en cuenta únicamente las citas procedentes de 87 revistas españolas seleccionadas como fuentes, mientras que para el cálculo de los indicadores internacionales se han sumado a las citas anteriores las que proceden de las revistas fuente extranjeras del Science Citation Index. REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA ha obtenido un factor de impacto nacional de 0,719 y un factor de impacto internacional de 0,837, lo que la sitúa en posiciones de liderazgo en la medicina española (AU)
The aim of this paper is to present the bibliometric indicators for REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA that were obtained from the «Potential impact factor of Spanish medical journals in 2001» study financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Citations to REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA, its national and international impact factor, and its immediacy index were calculated with methods similar to those used by the Institute for Scientific Information. National indicators were based only on citations from 87 Spanish journals considered source journals, whereas international indicators were calculated on the basis of citations from both national journals and foreign source journals in the Science Citation Index. REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA obtained a national impact factor of 0.719 and an international impact factor of 0.837, placing it at the head of the ranking of Spanish medical journals (AU)
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Cardiology , Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Publishing/statistics & numerical data , Bibliometrics , Internationality , SpainABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The 2001 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) includes only 13 Spanish medical journals. The impact factor (IF) of the rest of Spanish medical journals is unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the IF of the main Spanish medical journals, taking also into account the references from journals not covered by the SCI. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A set of 87 Spanish medical journals was selected from the national database IME and other international databases. All citable articles published in these journals in 2001 were analyzed, extracting their bibliographic references to articles published in 1999, 2000 and 2001. The indicators obtained for each journal were the number of cites, the IF and the immediacy index. RESULTS: Among the 87 source journals, 74 were not included in the JCR. From them, 5,388 bibliographic references were examined, identifying the journals cited. Final indicators were obtained adding these results to the ones obtained by using the Science Citation Index. The most cited journal was Medicina Clinica (768 cites), and the highest IF were attained by Histology and Histopathology (IF = 1.866), International Journal of Developmental Biology (IF = 1.654) and Medicina Clinica (IF = 1.125). CONCLUSIONS: This work has permitted to obtain the IF of 87 Spanish medical journals. Already detected in previous works, the leadership of the journal Medicina Clinica in Spanish medicine is confirmed. Spanish medical journals published in English have received a small number of cites from the ones published in Spanish. A low impact factor is not necessarily related to lack of quality, merit or relevance.
