J Korean Radiol Soc.  2006 Nov;55(5):515-521. 10.3348/jkrs.2006.55.5.515.

Recent Trends of Citation Status and Suggestions for Improved the Academic Authority of the Journal of the Korean Radiological Society during 2000-2005: Analysis of All Citations using KoMCI

• Park SY
• Kim HJ
• Ihn YK
• Cha ES
• Hwang SS

• KMID: 2024473
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.2006.55.5.515

Abstract

PURPOSE
We wanted to analyze the citation trend and to find a way to improve the impact factor (IF) of the Journal of the Korean Radiological Society (JKRS).
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The number of articles and references, the total citations and self-citations, the IF and the IF excluding self-citations (ZIF) were described by an analysis of Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI) during 2000-2005. The total and self citations of the JKRS were compared to that of the Top 5 journals.
RESULTS
There was a 57% decrease of papers for 6 years. The Korean references/paper ranged from 0.98-0.85. The number of total citations received steadily decreased from 394 in 2000 to 180 in 2005. The IF (ZIF) of the JKRS has been gradually lowered from 0.142 (0.049) in 2000 to 0.063 (0.059) in 2005. Although the total citations that cited all papers published/the annual number of papers was 55% of that of the top 5 journals, the total citations citing papers published within the recent two years was only 24% of that of the top 5 journals.
CONCLUSION
The citation status of the JKRS hassteadily decreased for the recent 6 years, and the IF of the JKRS was very low among all the Korean medical journals. To improve the IF, active advertising for the journal members of the importance of the IF is needed to encourage citing JKRS papers that have been published within the recent two years.

Keyword

Data analysis; Statistic analysis

MeSH Terms

Statistics as Topic