Abstract

This research aims to investigate the citations received by DOAJ's journals from ISI Web of Science's articles in five fields (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Pure Sciences, Technology & Engineering, and Health & Medical Sciences) during 2003–2008. It was used bibliometrics and citation analysis. In this research 2953 English-language journals in DOAJ were chosen, and no sampling was used. The research data have been gathered by means of Cited Reference Search in ISI Web of Science and after counting the number of citations in each field the journals were ranked (to the fifth rank) in terms of the number of the received citations. After studying the journals from DOAJ, it was clarified that 321 journals (10.87%) received citations, and these journals totally received 19050 citations. The average number of citations per journal was 6.45. Pure Sciences received most citations (10116 citations equal to 53.1%) and in this field Biology was in the first rank in terms of the number of citations (6009 citations equal to 50.4%) and Arts & Humanities received least citations (701 citations equal to 3.68%) and in this field Geography was in the last rank in terms of the number of citations (25 citations, equal to 3.57%). On the other hand, the Findings of Chi-square test are also indicative that there is a significant difference among the citations in terms of the mentioned-above five fields.

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