[Citation analysis of the Hungarian-language Orvosi Hetilap based on indicators between 2012 and 2016]. / Az Orvosi Hetilap idézetelemzése mutatószámok alapján 2012 és 2016 között.

INTRODUCTION: After getting indexed by scientific databases - Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports - the obtained scientific performance of the journal needs to be kept up. AIM: The aim of this article is to analyse citation numbers based on different bibliometric indicators between 2012 and 2016 comparing data with an article published in 2012. METHOD: Authors evaluated issues of Orvosi Hetilap published in 2013-2015 and searched data in various international databases. Number of citations, quality of citing journals were analysed based on the official 2015-2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap. Scientific performance of the journal was evaluated according to data of SCImago webpage and Scopus database as well. RESULTS: The official 2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap is 0,349 which is the highest value compared with the previous factors. The articles of Orvosi Hetilap are cited by international authors and high impact factor journals, too. Further, more than half of the publications cited are open access. The most frequently cited categories are original and review articles, and case reports. Scientific performance of Orvosi Hetilap is promising according to indicators of SCImago webpage and Scopus database. Mean self-citation rate of the journal is about 30%. Its h-index is 7 in Web of Science Core Collection, and 19 in Scopus database. CONCLUSIONS: Citation analysis of this article shows that citation numbers and various bibliometric indicators can increase in a short period, but drastic changes can only happen in a long period with keeping and pushing the obtained values, and focusing on the further development of the journal. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(30): 1226-1234.

[Over- or underestimated? Bibliographic survey of the biomedical periodicals published in Hungary]. / Túl- vagy alulértékeltek? Helyzetkép a magyar kiadású orvos- és élettudományi folyóiratokról.

INTRODUCTION: This publication - based on an article published in 2006 - emphasises the qualities of the current biomedical periodicals of Hungarian editions. AIM: The aim of this study was to analyse how Hungarian journals meet the requirements of the scientific aspect and international visibility. METHOD: Authors evaluated 93 Hungarian biomedical periodicals by 4 viewpoints of the two criteria mentioned above. RESULTS: 35% of the analysed journals complete the attributes of scientific aspect, 5% the international visibility, 6% fulfill all examined criteria, and 25% are indexed in international databases. CONCLUSIONS: 6 biomedical Hungarian periodicals covered by each of the three main bibliographic databases (Medline, Scopus, Web of Science) have the best qualities. Authors recommend to improve viewpoints of the scientific aspect and international visibility. The basis of qualitative adequacy are the accurate authors' guidelines, title, abstract, keywords of the articles in English, and the ability to publish on time.

[Bibliographic survey of the Orvosi Hetilap of Hungary: looking back and moving forward]. / Az Orvosi Hetilap bibliográfiai elemzése: visszatekintés és az elorelépés lehetoségei.

INTRODUCTION: The first step in the process of acquisition of impact factor for a scientific journal is to get registered at Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. AIM: The aim of this article is to evaluate the content and structure of Orvosi Hetilap with regards to selection criteria of Thomson Reuters, in particular to objectives of citation analysis. METHODS: Authors evaluated issues of Orvosi Hetilap published in 2011 and calculated the unofficial impact factor of the journal based on systematic search in various citation index databases. Number of citations, quality of citing journals and scientific output of the editorial board members were evaluated. Adherence to guidelines of international publishers was assessed, as well. RESULTS: Unofficial impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap has been continuously rising every year in the past decade (except for 2004 and 2010). The articles of Orvosi Hetilap are widely cited by international authors and high impact factor journals, too. Further, more than half the articles cited are open access. The most frequently cited categories are original and review articles as well as clinical studies. Orvosi Hetilap is a weekly published journal, which is covered by many international databases such as PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Embase, and BIOSIS Previews. As regards to the scientific output of the editorial board members, the truncated mean of the number of their publications was 497, citations 2446, independent citations 2014 and h-index 21. CONCLUSIONS: While Orvosi Hetilap fulfils many criteria for getting covered by Thomson Reuters, it is worthwhile to implement a method of online citation system in order to increase the number of citations. In addition, scientific publications of all editorial board members should be made easily accessible. Finally, publications of comparative studies by multiple authors are encouraged as well as papers containing epidemiological data analyses.

[Author-overdose. When will we come clean? - asks the medical librarian]. / Szerzoi dömping. Mikor öntünk tiszta vizet a pohárba? - kérdezi az orvosi könyvtáros.

The present study intends to draw attention to the importance of authorship ethics. It is necessary since papers these days that have many authors--even 10-12 authors--become increasingly general. In the first part of this study the change of author-number in four journals--JAMA, Nature, Lancet and Science--was analyzed based on the main document types--article, editorial material, letter and review--from 1975 until 2009. These changes were similar in all journals. The number of authors for 'articles' has changed the most significantly, a fourfold increase during 34 years. The possible correlation between the expected citations and the change of author-number could not be demonstrated based on this analysis. The increase in the number of authors may include more abuses. This study emphasizes the guideline of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors regarding authorship ethics which could help to reduce the number of misconduct cases. The analysis of some foreign and Hungarian biomedical journals reveals that the foreign periodicals try to follow the main guidelines, but only 4 Hungarian journals, of the analyzed 16, point out the matter of the authorship ethics. The practical solution for this problem is still in the making.

[New bibliometric indicators. Is this the end of the impact factor era?]. / Tudománymetriai újdonságok. Vége az impakt faktor egyeduralmának?

More and more bibliometric indicators emerge beside the impact factor, and a few of them are promising performance indicators. The aim of the study is to show briefly, but clearly the newest bibliometric measure numbers - like the recent enhancements of Journal Citation Report Web, Hirsch-index, Eigenfactor and SCImago Journal & Country Rank algorithms - focusing on the ranking of oncological journals, and to demonstrate the similarities and differences of the results with some examples. There are unified and well-structured web pages behind the newly appeared indicators, and some of the new numbers are presented in the well-known databases (Web of Science, Scopus) as scientific measures. The ranking of the compared oncological journals based on the different indicators show more similarities than differences, but more in-depth studies are required to find out how the results converge on any scientific area. There are some other methods, such as usage factor of the journals, beyond the indicators based on the citations. But the main point is that any ranking system should be a valid and correct representation of the scientific quality.

[Medical aspects of the open access initiative]. / A nyílt hozzáférés kezdeményezésének orvostudományi vonatkozásai.

The main condition of successful medical attendance and development of medical research is the use of scientific literature. The aim of our article is to briefly introduce the medical open access publishers and to call attention to the publishing possibilities. Hereby we want to incite Hungarian doctors to publish in these types of journals. Our internet research shows that since the millennium the number of open access publications has dynamically increased. A very promising fact is that most of the medical open access journals have high impact factor that guarantee high professional level. We hope that by the effect of our research more Hungarian doctors will publish in this way.

[Features of publications of Hungarian medical universities as reflected in numbers]. / Hazai egyetemek orvostudományi publikációinak sajátosságai a számok tükrében.

INTRODUCTION: The majority of scientific results from Hungarian Medical Universities are published in international periodicals in foreign languages. AIM: This study shows that in what numbers, with what kind of impact factors and where the results of the scientific work in the Hungarian Medical Universities are published. METHODS: The examined period is between 2000 and 2003. These scientific publications were explored by two methods based on the own assembled bibliographies of the Hungarian medical universities - University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, University of Pecs Medical School, University of Semmelweis and University of Szeged Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical and Pharmaceutical Center - and the Web of Science's recording. RESULTS: The scientific publications from our medical universities are published in great number and generally with increasing impact factors to guarantee the international publicity for the Hungarian researches. The 90-95 percent of publications which are intended for international publicity is published in those international journals which have impact factor. Among these journals there are many prestigious ones. CONCLUSIONS: Neither of the two methods which were used for exploring of publishing activity has decisive validity. The institutional reason for this is the insufficiency and the lack of precision of the bibliographies of the universities. In the authors' opinion it would be necessary to develop a uniform, electronic processing and take it over in each universities. So a national scientific database of medical universities would be created by joining these universities' databases.

[The unknown acquaintance, or the impact factor and others]. / Ismeretlen ismeros, avagy az impakt faktor s a többi ek.

Nobody doubts the importance of the scientific performance's evaluation. At the same time its way divides the group of experts. The present study mostly deals with the models of citation-analysis based evaluation. The aim of the authors is to present the background of the best known tool - Impact factor - since, according to the authors' experience, to the many people use without knowing it well. In addition to the "non-official impact factor" and Euro-factor, the most promising index-number, h-index is presented. Finally new initiation - Index Copernicus Master List - is delineated, which is suitable to rank journals. Studying different indexes the authors make a proposal and complete the method of long standing for the evaluation of scientific performance.

[On-line journals--are they the future? ]. / Online folyóiratok - ez a jövô?

The significant growth of the online literature usage, and the conspicuously differing interest of publishers, procurers and users raise the question whether the electronic or the paper journals will be the primary information sources in the future. The price of the scientific literature has gotten out of control in the last two decades. At the same time websites showed up providing open access, and this may make all participants of the market to change their marketing policy. Instead of the extra-profit accumulation strategy, publishers should take individual users' interests into consideration. Although the technical conditions of value-added option-enriched online services to surpass the paper journals are given already, there is still a demand for the latter, due to ingrained user habits. At the same time, the electronic version is attracting the users with e-versions, three-dimensional images, video records, sound, hypertext, content and relation analysis, which are limited only by the imagination. According to the authors, the development of information media is unstoppable, and the main challenge in the future will be still to find the most effective way of processing information, make it available for professional research and preserve it for the scientific heritage.

[Content informatics and professional analysis of Hungarian health-related websites]. / Magyar egészségügyi honlapok informatikai es szakmai elemzése.

INTRODUCTION: The number of health-related homepages is increasing and their content is exceeding. The visitor, let him/her be a private visitor or an expert, a patient or relative would like to access relevant data, trust the accuracy and up-to-date state of the web content. It is in the nature of these kind of services, that visitors would share their question and remarks with the authors specialized in a particular topic. Among others these circumstances led to the format and content-related regulation of websites. OBJECTIVE: In a nationwide research the authors examined, to what extent the Hungarian sites meet the requirements of the Health on Net codification and the criteria of the European Union Committee. METHOD: By studying the quality criteria-related websites, the authors examined each Hungarian website to see how the Hungarian pages live up to the regulations. The work concentrates on the content, but it does not neglect functional analysis either. CONCLUSION: The authors conclude, that in spite of shortcomings, home webpages aim to keep the directives of the European Union.

[The biomedical periodicals of Hungarian editions--historical overview]. / Magyar kiadású orvos- és élettudományi folyóiratok--történeti áttekintés.

INTRODUCTION: The majority of Hungarian scientific results are published in international periodicals in foreign languages. Yet the publications in Hungarian scientific periodicals also should not be ignored. AIM: This study analyses biomedical periodicals of Hungarian edition from different points of view. METHODS: Based on different databases a list of titles consisting of 119 items resulted, which contains both the core and the peripheral journals of the biomedical field. These periodicals were analysed empirically, one by one: checking out the titles. RESULTS: 13 of the titles are ceased, among the rest 106 Hungarian scientific journals 10 are published in English language. From the remaining majority of Hungarian language and publishing only a few show up in international databases. Although quarter of the Hungarian biomedical journals meet the requirements, which means they could be represented in international databases, these periodicals are not indexed. 42 biomedical periodicals are available online. Although quarter of these journals come with restricted access. 2/3 of the Hungarian biomedical journals have detailed instructions to authors. These instructions inform the publishing doctors and researchers of the requirements of a biomedical periodical. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing number of Hungarian biomedical journals published is welcome news. But it would be important for quality publications which are cited a lot to appear in the Hungarian journals. The more publications are cited, the more journals and authors gain in prestige on home and international level.

[Presence of the biomedical periodicals of Hungarian editions in international databases]. / Magyar kiadású orvos- és élettudományi folyóiratok megjelenése nemzetközi adatbázisokban.

Presence of the biomedical periodicals of Hungarian editions in international databases. The majority of Hungarian scientific results in medical and related sciences are published in scientific periodicals of foreign edition with high impact factor (IF) values, and they appear in international scientific literature in foreign languages. In this study the authors dealt with the presence and registered citation in international databases of those periodicals only, which had been published in Hungary and/or in cooperation with foreign publishing companies. The examination went back to year 1980 and covered a 25-year long period. 110 periodicals were selected for more detailed examination. The authors analyzed the situation of the current periodicals in the three most often visited databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science), and discovered, that the biomedical scientific periodicals of Hungarian interests were not represented with reasonable emphasis in the relevant international bibliographic databases. Because of the great number of data the scientific literature of medicine and related sciences could not be represented in its entirety, this publication, however, might give useful information for the inquirers, and call the attention of the competent people.

[Scientific communication at the beginning of the 21st century--Hungarian survey and international outlook in medicine and the life sciences]. / Tudományos kommunikáció a 21. század elején. Magyarországi helyzetfelmérés és nemzetközi kitekintés az orvos- és élettudományok területén.

INTRODUCTION: Rapid developments take place in communication technology. It is a hard task to keep pace with them, but unavoidable. The scene of electronic communication and publication, the Internet has originally been constructed for scientific communication and publication of scientists. Nowadays, the electronic communication has spread all over the world. Though the share of sciences has been diminished, the progress in the scientific electronic communication has not been broken. AIM: The authors delineate the present situation in electronic communication in general and in Hungary. METHODS: The authors asked by questionnaire survey the medical scientists and professionals about their knowledge and usage of modern publication possibilities. For comparison's sake, the authors referred to some foreign surveys as well. RESULTS: In Hungary, the communication possibilities on the Internet--and the electronically accessible publications--are at the readers' disposal at the universities and academic institutions. The opinions about the popularity and effects of electronic publication are generally positive. Concerns were expressed in connection with the possible weaker professional control in case of certain types of publication. In the opinion of the majority of questioned people the electronic form of publication will never replace the traditional one completely, it will be, however, dominant.

[Visiting Hungarian medical homepages and portals]. / Látogatás a magyar orvostudományi honlapokon és portálokon.

INTRODUCTION: The Internet is a rapidly expanding network that handles miscellaneous data. Everyone or every organisation can join to it. The Internet covers more than 800 millions of documents and it is a hard task to find the relevant and up-to-date information among them. Search engines, portals and virtual catalogues back the retrieval of data. AIM: The aim of this study is to give insight into the presence of Hungarian health institutions on the Internet, and we try to find information about the quality of these Internet resources. SCOPE AND RESULT: Based upon the analysis of 72 Web Pages we drew the conclusion that the Hungarian medical homepages are not prepared well enough to supply content services. There are, however, some examples to very good solutions. The number of medical portals containing exact, up-to-date information is growing continuously.