Citation Analysis of Open Access Medical Journal “JK Science”
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https://doi.org/10.37591/joals.v1i2.2580Abstract
Abstract
Citation analysis of multidisciplinary, Peer-reviewed, open access medical journal “JK Science” is carried out for a period of 5 years (2004–2008) to analyze growth of research output and understand the relationship between citing and cited documents by medical practitioners. The study reveals that majority of articles got published in 2005 (21.5%) followed by 2008 (20.28%) with least number in 2007 (19.13%). Citations from print are cited more, i.e., 99.17% than Citation from web sources (0.82%). The average number of Citations from print sources are maximum in 2007 (13.36%) with least in 2006 (11.79%). There are merger number of web sources used with maximum consulted in 2004 (0.14%) and least in 2008 (0.071%). On an average 12.59 citation are cited by each article. 9.58% books were consulted in 2006 and least in 2008 (4.4%). Overall a total of 6.67% books were consulted in five years of research study. Maximum number of journals was consulted in 2006 (90.79%), year 2004 shows (27.77%) use of web-resources where other sources are cited more, i.e., (97.22%), followed by journal (2.77%) and (0%) citations from books. Multi-author contribution is maximum (89.08%) and Single-author contribution amounts to (10.91%) revealing increasing trends towards collaborative research.
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Citation analysis, Open access, Research collaboration, Medical science
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