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J.Neurol.Sci.Turk.NOVEMBER / KASIM

 2008

ISSUE / SAYI #131

Editor

Prof. Nezih OKTAR MD

Official Monthly Newsletter of the

Journal of Neurological Sciences [Turkish]

 

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 Indexing in esteemed journal databases, ranking and the results of our short web survey

 

Dear Colleagues and readers,

In this monthly newsletter of our e-journal's suplementary web publication I would like to emphasize on the subject of ranking scientific medical journals.

As we've started an assessment of neuroscience journals via H-index in this newsletter almost a year ago recently an article published in FASEB Journal describes the analysis of a new ranking of journals, in comparison with the standard Impact Factor (IF). The SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) is based in the Scopus database (covering more than 13.000 journals); it is freely available and incorporates in the calculations a weighting factor accounting for the relative importance of the journals that are generating the respective citations. This freely available resource can be a useful alternative tool for the researchers working in human genetics, in terms of the evaluation and consideration of publications in the area and to get an overview of the performance (number of publications, number of citations, number of citations per publication, H index, among others) of regions or countries in specific research subjects and years. In this H-index based ranking system (you may found in details at the left column below) top 20 journals in neuroscience area are demostrated as follows: 

 

 

Title

SJR

H index

Total Docs. (3years)

Total Refs.

Total Cites (3years)

Country

1

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

4,772

125

400

10.416

5.954

UNITED KINGDOM

2

Neuron

4,740

217

1.218

17.488

13.229

UNITED STATES

3

Nature Neuroscience

4,373

159

916

9.220

10.023

UNITED STATES

4

Nature reviews. Microbiology

3,340

54

595

8.564

3.841

UNITED KINGDOM

5

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

2,743

113

325

4.767

2.876

UNITED KINGDOM

6

Trends in Neurosciences

2,599

148

337

5.743

3.457

UNITED KINGDOM

7

Journal of Neuroscience

1,929

211

4.090

76.911

30.908

UNITED STATES

8

Progress in Neurobiology

1,897

115

143

12.008

1.668

UNITED KINGDOM

9

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

1,850

82

323

4.232

2.782

UNITED KINGDOM

10

BioEssays

1,798

105

474

9.271

2.401

UNITED STATES

11

Annals of Neurology

1,479

146

938

6.053

6.517

UNITED STATES

12

Brain

1,358

139

894

15.584

7.033

UNITED KINGDOM

13

Mechanisms of Development

1,296

84

301

4.583

1.057

IRELAND

14

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

1,227

54

75

6.248

676

UNITED KINGDOM

15

Cerebral Cortex

1,218

93

523

16.406

3.515

UNITED STATES

16

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

1,174

46

303

4.920

1.872

UNITED KINGDOM

17

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

1,115

71

483

8.827

2.048

UNITED STATES

18

Hippocampus

1,068

65

307

6.595

1.657

UNITED STATES

19

Brain Research Reviews

1,031

94

233

14.505

1.682

NETHERLANDS

20

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

0,993

80

246

11.043

2.125

UNITED STATES

 There is a phrase in Latin as: "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis" means that the time is changing and we are changing with it..

Indexing in prestigious databases is one of the important aim of editors as well as authors submitting scientific articles to the journals. As our short web-site survey results have showed the significance of being indexing in international esteem databases (see in details in the left column below), all our effort is used up to enter Current contents (SCIE, Neuroscience citation index), Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), EBSCO, Index Copernicus, DOAJ, and Turkish medical citation index. Our situation is now pending in Index Medicus (MedLine). We will going to improve our coverage in JNS Turk Newsletter as our surveyors and readers needs.

Sincerely yours,

Prof. Nezih Oktar M.D.

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

References

1.Falagas ME, Kouranos VD, Arencibia-Jorge R, Karageorgopoulos DE. Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor. FASEB J. 2008 Aug;22(8):2623-8. 

2. The SJR server is available at SCImago Journal Ranking website

Prof. Nezih Oktar MD

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

 

 

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Saygın dizinlerde yer almak ve kısa anketimizin sonuçlarının değerlendirilmesi 

Sevgili okurlar ve meslektaşlarım,

Elektronik dergimize ek olarak internette yayımlanan bu ayki haber postamızda bilimsel tıp dergilerinin derecelendirmesi konusuna değinmek istiyorum.

Bir yıl kadar önce bu haber postasında başlattığımız ve halen süregelen sinirbilim dergilerinin H-göstergesi üzerinden değerlendirilmesine benzer tarzda yakınlarda FASEB dergisinde standard etki faktörü (EF) yerine geçebilecek bir derecelendirme ile ilgili makale yayımlandı. "SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR)" olarak adlandırılan bu sistemde Scopus veri tabanı baz olarak alınmıştır ki 13,000'den fazla dergiyi içermektedir. Bedava ulaşılabilecek bir kaynak olarak bu konuda çalışan araştırıcılara önerilir. Yayımın performansı ile ilgili atıf sayısı, atıf oranı, H-göstergesi gibi ve konu başlıkları, coğrafi bölge ile ülkelere özel tarama bölümleri de içermektedir. Sinirbilim alanında en yüksek SJR değerine sahip ilk 20 dergi aşağıdaki tabloda verilmektedir:

 

 

Dergi

SJR

H göstergesi

Toplam Dök. (3yıl)

Toplam Kay.

Toplam atıf (3yıl)

Ülke

1

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

4,772

125

400

10.416

5.954

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

2

Neuron

4,740

217

1.218

17.488

13.229

ABD

3

Nature Neuroscience

4,373

159

916

9.220

10.023

ABD

4

Nature reviews. Microbiology

3,340

54

595

8.564

3.841

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

5

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

2,743

113

325

4.767

2.876

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

6

Trends in Neurosciences

2,599

148

337

5.743

3.457

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

7

Journal of Neuroscience

1,929

211

4.090

76.911

30.908

ABD

8

Progress in Neurobiology

1,897

115

143

12.008

1.668

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

9

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

1,850

82

323

4.232

2.782

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

10

BioEssays

1,798

105

474

9.271

2.401

ABD

11

Annals of Neurology

1,479

146

938

6.053

6.517

ABD

12

Brain

1,358

139

894

15.584

7.033

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

13

Mechanisms of Development

1,296

84

301

4.583

1.057

İRLANDA

14

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

1,227

54

75

6.248

676

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

15

Cerebral Cortex

1,218

93

523

16.406

3.515

ABD

16

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

1,174

46

303

4.920

1.872

BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK

17

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

1,115

71

483

8.827

2.048

ABD

18

Hippocampus

1,068

65

307

6.595

1.657

ABD

19

Brain Research Reviews

1,031

94

233

14.505

1.682

HOLLANDA

20

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

0,993

80

246

11.043

2.125

ABD

 

Latince bir söz vardır: "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis" Yani "Zaman değişir ve biz de onunla birlikte değişiriz" anlamında.

Uluslararası saygın dizinlerde yer almak her editörün ve bilimsel dergilere yazı yollayan yazarların önemli bir hedefidir. Kısa internet anket sonuçları da aynı şekilde saygın dizinlerde yer almanın önemini vurgulamıştır (ayrıntılar için sol kolonda altta bakınız) ve biz de Current Contents (SCIE, Neuroscience citation index), Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), EBSCO, Index Copernicus, DOAJ ve Türk Tıp Dizinlerinde yer almak için her olanağımızı harcadık. Index Medicus (MedLine) dizinindeki inceleme halen sürmektedir. Anket sonuçları yönünde JNS Türk Haber Postasını okurlarımızın isteği doğrultusunda kapsamını daha da iyileştirme çabalarımız sürecektir.

En iyi dileklerimle,

Prof. Dr. Nezih Oktar 

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

 

Kaynaklar

1.Falagas ME, Kouranos VD, Arencibia-Jorge R, Karageorgopoulos DE. Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor. FASEB J. 2008 Aug;22(8):2623-8. 

2. The SJR server is available at SCImago Journal Ranking website

 

Prof. Dr. Nezih Oktar 

editor@jns.dergisi.org 

From "J Neurol Sci [Turk]" editorial 

 

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195.gif (847 bytes)Results of the short survey of JNS Turk 2008

 

Completed survey rate 87.2%

1.       How did you first learn about J Neurol Sci [Turk]?

Took someone else's advice 17.0%

E-journal contact me directly by e-mail 55.3%

Search Engine 17.0%

Referral/Link from another site 4.3%

While surfing 4.3%

Other (please specify) personal communication  2.1%

2.       What is your speciality?

General practitioner 0.0%

Neurology 37.8%

Neurosurgery 35.6%

Pathology 2.2%

Neuroscience 8.9%

Other (please specify) (Pain medicine, ENT, Otolaryngologist/Neurotologist, Neurological rehabilitation, Molecular Biology, etc.) 15.6%

3.       Where are you located?

Turkey 82.6%

United States 4.3%

UK 4.3%

Germany 2.2%

Other Country (Japan, Iran, Iceland) 6.6%

4.       Are you satisfied with the overall usability of J Neurol Sci [Turk]? If not, tell us how we can improve...

Haven't used it yet 9.8%

Yes 87.8%

No 2.4%

It has a very narrow focus on clinical issues. This is less interesting for me.

 

5.       What other features would you like to see added to our Monthly Newsletter?

...review articles

...I am very satisfied with the monthly newsletter