Abstract:We investigated whether papers on Neglected Tropical Zoonoses are published in journals with lower impact factors than research on diseases with a similar global health burden. We found that, despite being cited equally often, the papers on Neglected Tropical Zoonoses were published in journals with lower impact factors. The scopes of these journals are mainly restricted to Tropical medicine. A clustering analysis revealed that The Lancet, a high impact general medical journal, does pay attention to Neglected … Show more
The paper explores the problem of the parameter, Impact Factor for analyzing research publications of different subjects. A new tool, Absolute Impact Factor is introduced as analytical solution to bring journals of all subjects in a scale.
The paper explores the problem of the parameter, Impact Factor for analyzing research publications of different subjects. A new tool, Absolute Impact Factor is introduced as analytical solution to bring journals of all subjects in a scale.
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