A method for comparison of biomedical publication quality across ISI discipline categories.
The purpose of this paper is to offer a method to help to objectively compare quality of publication in biomedical journals in different disciplines with varying ISI Impact Factors (IF). Three methods--the number of journals per ISI Journal Citation Report discipline category/10, the IF/10, and the log (IF+1)/10--were used to calculate an article score. The distribution of article scores were compared across three defined ISI discipline categories: two clinical categories, dentistry (ISI category--dentistry, oral surgery, and medicine, forty-five journals) and medicine (ISI category--medicine, internal and general, 110 journals), and one basic science category, physiology (ISI category--physiology, seventy-four journals). The use of article scores per discipline category enables a reasonable, relative comparison of the quality of biomedical publications of individuals across disciplines for the purpose of promotion or awarding of research grants.
Dental Research Institute of the Medical Research Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. cleatonjonesp@dentistry.wits.ac.za
Peter
P
Cleaton-Jones
Glenda
G
Myers
D015706:Bibliometrics; D003813:Dentistry; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D016014:Linear Models; D008511:Medicine; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010827:Physiology; D013515:Surgery, Oral