title: [National and international impact factor of Revista Española de Cardiología].
abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the bibliometric indicators for Revista Española de Cardiologíathat were obtained from the "Potential impact factor of Spanish medical journals in 2001" study financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte. Citations to Revista Española de Cardiología, its national and international impact factor, and its immediacy index were calculated with methods similar to those used by the Institute for Scientific Information. National indicators were based only on citations from 87 Spanish journals considered source journals, whereas international indicators were calculated on the basis of citations from both national journals and foreign source journals in the Science Citation Index. Revista Española de Cardiologíaobtained a national impact factor of 0.719 and an international impact factor of 0.837, placing it at the head of the ranking of Spanish medical journals.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación López Piñero, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. aleixand@uv.es
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aleixandre Benavent
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Valderrama Zurián
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castellano Gómez
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miguel-Dasit
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Simó Meléndez
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarro Molina
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002309:Cardiology; D038622:Internationality; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain