Conformity Assessment of Iranian Medical Journals Written in English with the Objective Acceptance Criteria of Journals in the Scopus Database
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Introduction
Indexing of a countrys scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that countrys academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals written in English that are not indexed in Scopus database with its objective acceptance criteria.Methods
The current applied descriptive study assessed the latest issues of 52 Iranian medical journals written in English that were not indexed in Scopus database. Data were collected through observing the journals websites and using a checklist. The collected data were analyzed in Excel software.Results
The results showed that 32.7% of the journals did not have foreign editors and 59.6% did not have foreign authors. According to the results, 77.6% of abstracts were structured. In addition, the amount of self-citations was low and more than 70% of journals were being published regularly. The findings also showed that 49% of journals had EndNote output.Conclusion
The studied journals were favorable in terms of most of the criteria, but required cooperation with foreign editors and writers and more EndNote outputs.Keywords:
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Persian
Published:
Health Information Management, Volume:13 Issue: 6, 2017
Pages:
426 to 431
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