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Impact factor, scientific production and quality of Brazilian medical journals

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Coura, José Rodrigues, Willcox, Luciane de CB·2003·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
DOI 10.1590/s0074-02762003000300001
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Brazilian scientific community is highly influenced by the impact factor rates of the journals where their production is published.There is an indicator that is used and accepted, in Brazil, by the majority of researchers, research and educational institutions, and also by most research and post-graduation financing agencies, especially CNPq and Capes; it is the Science Citation Index (SCI), from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) databases, which is published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).ISI indexes nearly 16,000 journals, within more than 160 areas of knowledge.Among these titles, there are 15 Brazilian journals, carefully selected, that represent 0.09% of all ISI indexed titles.Considering the 15 Brazilian journals, only one (Computational and Applied Mathematics -Cambridge, MA, USA) reached an impact factor higher than 1, the others ranges from 0.764 to 0.032, according to JCR 2001.The impact factor is determined by dividing the number of citations received by the journal articles within a year on ISI indexed journals, to the number of works published by the journal during the two previous years.For instance: the 423 articles published by Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in 1999 and 2000 were cited 272 times, in 2001, on ISI indexed journals; therefore, Memórias' impact factor, in 2001, achieved 0.643 (272/ 423).Other indicators are also considered, such as the Immediacy Index that points out the relation between the citations, in 2001, of papers published in that same year, and the Cited Half-life that accumulates from previous years.The SciELO program (Scientific Electronic Library Online), coordinated by Bireme and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo -Fapesp (São Paulo State Research Support Foundation), indexes 91 from nearly 500 Brazilian journals.This number represents about 18% of national journals, including those indexed by ISI, by Medline/Index Medicus and Psyinfo (APA) and others selected by SciELO Consultant Committee, according to the journal scientific guidelines, the Publishing Board, periodicity, punctuality, number of articles during the year, among other criteria.Following ISI similar criteria and, in our opinion, more adapted to Brazilian reality and less discriminatory, even because of a continuous evaluation process accomplished by an Intelligent Consultant Committee, SciELO includes journals of excellent scientific quality and medical-social importance.Among these, we call attention to

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  • SciELO demonstrates how significant government funding and support can dramatically improve the visibility, accessibility and impact of science from Brazil and other regions of Latin America.

    “A collaboration between the Foundation for the Support of Science of Sao Paulo (FAPESP) and the Latin America and Caribbean Centre for Health Sciences Information BIREME (www.bireme.org),SciELO demonstrates how significant government funding and support can dramatically improve the visibility, accessibility and impact of science from Brazil and other regions of Latin America (Coura and Willcox 200”

    From Participation in the global knowledge commons: Challenges and opportunities for research dissemination in developing countries (2005) · cites this paper as Coura and Willcox 2003

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Authors
Coura, J. R., & Willcox, L. D. C.
Venue
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Publisher
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Published
2003-04
Volume
98
Issue
3
Pages
293-298
ISSN
0074-0276 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1590/s0074-02762003000300001
OpenAlex
W2071908897
Cited by
51
References
0
Citations by year
2022: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 4
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Arca - Repositório Institucional da Fiocruz (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
Keywords
impact factor, journal evaluation, SciELO, Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports, journal indexing, citation analysis, research output, CNPq, CAPES, journal quality
MeSH terms
Brazil, Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Research, Bibliometrics, Internet

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