Abstract
Background In 2008 the journal Medicina Oral Patología Oral y Cirugía Bucal was included in Journal Citation Reports. To appraise its evolution and current status, this study carried out a bibliometric analysis and evaluation of the journal for the period 2008-2018. Material and Methods From the Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports we obtained the indicators Journal Impact Factor (JIF), 5-year JIF, JIF without self-cites, Eigenfactor score and Article Influence score (2010-2017); and from the Core Collection database the following variables: number and article types, institutions and countries of origin of the authors (2008-2018), and the variable cited and citing journal data in 2017. Twelve articles/year (n=132) were randomly selected to gather: the time between submittal and acceptance of an article, number of authors/article, representation of each section, gender of first author, and funding. Results The journal occupied the third quartile of the JCR from 2010 to 2017, when it moved up to the second quartile. From 2008 to 2018 it published a total of 1,518 documents, 90% articles and 9.5% reviews. Sixty countries were represented, 48.68% of the documents coming from Spain, and overall 1,293 institutions were involved. Between submittal and acceptance of articles, the average time was 134.42 days, without differences between years. The mean of authors/article was 5.15, increasing over time. The sections most represented were Oral Medicine and Pathology, and Oral Surgery. There were no differences regarding the gender of the first author, and in general the authors did not provide information about funding received. Conclusions The bibliometric results indicate a steadily improving position of this journal, along with a tendency to reduce self-citation. The time between reception of an article and its acceptance was very stable, the number of authors per article showed an increase, and there was a nearly equal representation of males and females as the first author. Key words:Bibliometrics, Journal Impact Factor, Web of Science, gender.
Highlights
In the year 1996, Medicina Oral S.L., a private enterprise created by Prof
Bibliometric indexes of the journal The values for the bibliometric indexes obtained by the journal are shown in Table 1, along with the quartile and percentile occupied according to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
In this study, a bibliometric analysis of the Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal journal was carried out according to Web of Science (WoS); the objective was to analyze certain variables held to be of interest in the published articles
Summary
In the year 1996, Medicina Oral S.L., a private enterprise created by Prof. José V. Bagán, founded the journal Medicina Oral with a first volume published in Sept.-Oct. of that year. Medicina Oral was indexed in Index Medicus, MEDLINE and PubMed in both languages from volume 6 number 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2001) until its disappearance, the last issue being volume 9 number 4, in Aug.-Oct. 2004; and it was indexed in Scopus, Embase and Emcare from 1999 to 2004 It was included in the Índice Médico Español and in the Índice Bibliográfico Español de Ciencias de la Salud, IBECS, during the period 2000-2004. Published in English, the first issue to come out with this name was volume 9 number 5, in Nov.-Dec. 2004 [2] Since that date, it has published six volumes per year, and the abbreviated title is Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. The time between reception of an article and its acceptance was very stable, the number of authors per article showed an increase, and there was a nearly equal representation of males and females as the first author
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