Scientometric Analysis of Journal of Biomedical Science

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Scientometric Analysis of Journal of Biomedical
Science Te-Cheng Yu1, Chung-Yao Wang1, Wen-Chien
Kuo1, Yee-Shuan Lee2 and Yuh-Shan Ho1 1School of
Public Health, Taipei Medical University 2Bibliome
tric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang
Hospital
Introduction Among 5752 journals indexed by
Science Citation Index (SCI) in 2001, 16
scientific journals were issued by Taiwan.
Journal of Biomedical Science was indexed by SCI
since 1997 and was categorized in research
experimental medicine. It ranked 29th in 75
journals in 2001 with the highest impact factor
(1.761) among 16 journals. In 1955, Garfield
first mentioned the idea of an impact factor that
is a fundamental citation-based measure for
significance and performance of scientific
journals. It is perhaps the most popular
bibliometric product used in bibliometrics
itself. In this study, volume 4, issue 2-3 to
volume 9, issue 6 was evaluated covering period
from 1997 to 2002. A bibliometric analysis was
performed to assess the publication pattern
concerning authorship, collaboration, origin
countries, citation frequency and citation
indicator. Methodology The data for this study
were based on Science Citation Index (SCI)
database on the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. The
research papers analysis were obtained upon
literature search with defined Source Title
Journal of Biomedical Science. Results and
Discussion A total of 354 papers were published
in Journal of Biomedical Science with 1240
citations from 29 countries during the time span
from 1997 to 2002. 82 were dominated by Article,
16 Review, 1.7 Editorial Material and 0.28
Correction. Citation per publication of review
was 3.9 times than that of article. Most papers
were published by United States and Taiwan
contributing 40 and 39 respectively. The
results indicated small group was the most often
method of collaboration.

• Conclusion
• The bibliometric profile of Journal of Biomedical
  Science from 1981 to 2002 showed a low degree of
  international collaboration (12) and a high
  percent of independent work.
• The results have suggested publication bias in
  authors from Taiwan and USA. USA and Taiwan
  represent a share of 79 of world publications
  and 80 of world citations in Journal of
  Biomedical Science. USA has highest publication
  (40) and citation (39) in the world.
• 66 documents published by 2 to 5 authors as a
  popular co-authorship. 35 documents has never
  been cited since it published.