The feature of papers and citation analysis of eleven journals in tropical medicine indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded

Infectious diseases citation patterns: mapping the literature 2008–2010

“…Here, 3.4% of all journals cited contributed 34.1% of the citations, much like previously published studies in epidemiology [35], general public health [13,28], tropical medicine [33,36], tuberculosis [10], and occupational health [37]. Sixty-five percent of joumal titles (n=233) were cited only once, indicating a wide dispersion of infectious disease literature beyond the small set of core journals in Zones 1 and 2.…”

“…Even a closely related discipline, tropical medicine, cited a slightly lower percentage of journal articles (87.9%), as shown by Hua [33]. It should be noted, however, that both Lariviere et al and Hua calculated the serials to other publication t3^e citation ratios using Science Citation Index, which leaves out laws, websites, and many other miscellaneous items from its statistics [13,32,33].…”

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.…”

Citation indexing and the development of academic journals in tropical medicine

“…An examination of citation patterns among 12 tropical medicine journals during 2002 revealed that the field bestowed approximately 40% more citations than it received, the core journals of tropical medicine cited each other heavily, and that there was significant reference to the general medicine and multidisciplinary science periodicals (Schoonbaert 2004). Perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of tropical medicine journals in recent years was an examination of 1,454 articles with 33,517 references in the 2004 literature (Hua 2005). Results from the study indicated that there were an average of 23 references per article and the self-citing rate was approximately 7%.…”

“…Results from the study indicated that there were an average of 23 references per article and the self-citing rate was approximately 7%. Brazil, the United States, India and England were identified as being some of the more advanced countries with regard to tropical medicine research (Hua 2005 1995 and 2003 (and published in 2006) revealed that developing areas of the world were now producing considerable amounts of research, although the mean impact factor of articles published in tropical medicine journals was still highest for the United States . Interestingly, some of the earliest bibliometric analysis to include tropical medicine journals was conducted by the inventor of the impact factor himself, Eugene Garfield.…”