Schoonbaert Dirk
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Trop Med Int Health. 2004 Nov;9(11):1142-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01327.x.
Selections of most important journals in the field of tropical medicine have previously been identified with the help of resources such as bibliographical and citation databases. This article uses ISI's Journal Citation Reports (JSR) for 2002 to analyse the citation characteristics of the Tropical Medicine category. According to these data, this small but diverse group of 12 journals bestows some 40% more citations than it receives. Its six typical core journals tend to cite one another heavily, but they also refer a lot to multidisciplinary science and general medicine journals, and to infectious diseases and parasitology journals. Looking at the sources from which JCR's tropical medicine journals derive their citations, it is clear that in this reverse direction, the specialty's literature is still more concentrated. Apart from the typical core, this JCR category also contains a number of journals with more idiosyncratic citing patterns, focused on specialties such as paediatrics, a single disease (leprosy) and a representative of Latin American and Francophone biomedical science each. Implications of concentrated citedness and language biases are discussed briefly. This paper features a selection of bibliometric parameters relating to the tropical medicine journals and lists of the 80 journals most citing and cited by them.
此前，借助书目数据库和引文数据库等资源，人们已确定了热带医学领域最重要的期刊。本文利用科学信息研究所（ISI）2002年的《期刊引证报告》（JCR）来分析热带医学类别的引文特征。根据这些数据，这12种规模不大但种类多样的期刊所获得的引用比它们给出的引用多出约40%。其6种典型的核心期刊往往相互大量引用，但它们也大量引用多学科科学期刊和普通医学期刊，以及传染病和寄生虫学期刊。从JCR热带医学期刊的引文来源来看，很明显在这个相反的方向上，该专业的文献仍然更为集中。除了典型的核心期刊外，这个JCR类别还包含一些具有更特殊引用模式的期刊，它们分别专注于儿科学、单一疾病（麻风病）以及拉丁美洲和法语生物医学科学的代表等专业领域。本文简要讨论了集中被引和语言偏见的影响。本文列出了与热带医学期刊相关的一些文献计量参数，以及引用它们最多和被它们引用最多的80种期刊的列表。
