title: Assessing the effect of highly cited papers on the impact factor of journals in the field of public health.
abstract: The aim of this study was to appraisal the effect of highly cited papers in the field of public health and find out whether the unusual citations affect the ranking order of the journals in this field or not. A total number of 142 journals titles were listed in Journal Citation Report (ISI Thomson) in the field of "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health". All but one of them had published papers at least for a year from 2009 to 2010. Journal title, number of citations and publication year of 45685 papers were collected from ISI web of knowledge database at December 25, 2011. About half of the papers (23226) had no citations and 89.4% (40835) had less than 6 citations. We concluded that the ranking of journals in the field of public health is not affected by the individual papers with unusual number of citations.
authors: Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; Students' Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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authors: Rezaei
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authors: Navidi
authors: Mb
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authors: Rokni
authors: Mr
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authors: Pourmand
keywords: Impact factor; Journal; Public health
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