How Journal Metrics Illustrate the Transformation of Archives of Plastic Surgery into an International Journal
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: How Journal Metrics Illustrate the Transformation of Archives of Plastic Surgery into an International Journalnumber of citations of 21 years' worth of JKSPRS was 217 citations of 149 articles; strikingly, in less than 2 years' worth of APS publication, 280 citations of 135 APS articles occurred (up to September 2014).Therefore, the average number of citations per article for JKSPRS was 0.084, while that of APS was an order of magnitude higher, at 0.795.The citations per document (2 years) for APS from the 2013 SCImago Journal and Country Ranking, was 1.074.The SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR) was 0.424, which is a ranking of 178 out of 379 surgery journals (47.0%).The countries of authors published in APS from January 2012 to September 2014 are presented in Fig. 1.The countries of authors who cited APS from 2012 to September 2014 in Web of Science are shown in Fig. 2. The Hirsch index from In 2012, the official journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons began publishing exclusively in English and changed its name to Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS).Through the contributions of the Editorial Board, reviewers, authors, and journal staff, APS has quickly transformed into a truly international journal, with authors and studies originating from all over the world.Journal metrics-such as the number of articles, impact factor, citation frequency, citations per two years, Hirsch index, country of authors, and country of citing articles' authors-are often used to demonstrate quality and influence in academic publication.Although such metrics cannot fully describe the quality of research and ideas reported by the journal, the depth and breadth of the international academic community that has formed around its texts and practices, or the influence of the journal's content on clinical practice, they still provide important insights about the growth and development of a journal.Thus all these journal metrics were gathered and analyzed from Web of Science, SCImago Journal Ranking, Scopus, and KoreaMed Synapse.The proportion of the original articles that reported on research that had been funded was also calculated.The methods are the same as those used previously to analyze other journals based in Korea [1,2].The results were interesting.The number of citable
Source: Archives of Plastic Surgery
Author: Sun Huh
Institution: Hallym University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $700
Award: G8894907832
OpenAlex ID: W2019818707