[Analysis of citations and national and international impact factor of Farmacia Hospitalaria (2001-2005)].
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this study is to analyse the citation patterns and impact and immediacy indicators of the Farmacia Hospitalaria journal during the period 2001-2005.


METHODS
An analysis of citations chosen from 101 Spanish health science journals was carried out in order to determine the citing and cited journals and the national and international impact and immediacy indicators. A similar methodology used by Thomson ISI in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Journal Citation Reports (JRC) was applied.


RESULTS
Farmacia Hospitalaria made 1,370 citations to 316 different journals. The percentage of self-citations was 9%. The national impact factor increased from 0.178 points in 2001 to 0.663 points in 2005 while the international impact factor increased from 0.178 to 0.806 for the same period.


CONCLUSIONS
The analysis of citation patterns demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of Farmacia Hospitalaria and a significant growth in the impact indicators over recent years. These indicators are higher than those of some other pharmacy journals included in Journal Citation Reports. Self-citation was not excessive and was similar to that of other journals.
Aleixandre-Benavent
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Instituto de Histpria de la Ciencia y Documentación López Piñero, CSIC-Universitat de Valencia. aleixand@uv.es
González Alcaide
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G
Miguel-Dasit
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González de Dios
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de Granda Orive
J I
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Valderrama Zurián
J C
JC
D015706:Bibliometrics; D038622:Internationality; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010604:Pharmacy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain