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

Creating Environmental and Occupational Health: A Journal and the Field it Shaped, 1919–2009

“…Given the rise of bibliometric indicators in assessing longitudinal journal performance, 24 the fourth article describes a citation-based analysis of the longest-running and perhaps most famous incarnation of the AEOH, the Archives of Environmental Health (AEH), which ran between 1960 and 2004. 25 This complements a previous paper from the AEOH, 26 where a bibliometric analysis of 5 contemporary EOH journals between 1985 and 2006 was described in detail.…”

Environmental health citation patterns: mapping the literature 2008–2010

“…Though environmental health literature has been studied previously, the research has been to determine productivity and reach [3,4]. It has also been studied in tandem with occupational health [20,33], which is a related, but distinct, discipline. For evidence of this, one need only look at the "core" journals established in Smith's two-part study of occupational health and medicine journals; only one of the five titles established as core to occupational health using multiple methodologies.…”

“…Individual articles' citedness varied widely, however; the 4 articles falling more squarely into environmental health received between 44.8% and 77.0% of all citations within 10 years of publication. The more occupational health-themed article received only 12.6% of total citations within 10 years [20]. Looking at the 7 most popularly cited articles from 1961 to 1974, Smith found that only 1 of the articles had more than 50% of its citations within 10 years and that maximum citation density occurred between 10 and 15 years [21].…”

“…As part of a larger analysis. Smith traced how the 5 most popularly cited articles published in the journal from 1975-2005 were cited over time [20]. For all 5 articles, citations peaked 8 years after publication, and most citations were received within the first 10-15 years.…”

Citation Index and Impact factor

“…Through citation analysis, citation index provides journal ranking by giving information about what articles, themes, and topics were being published, cited, or ignored and also offers unique insight into a particular journal and provides data on historical trends, immediacy index, cited half-life of journals etc. [36] Citation analysis helps to know the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), Author Self-Citation (ASC) and Journal Self-Citation (JSC). Citation index also helps to determine the latest areas of research through bibliometric indicators.…”