Labanaris Apostolos P, Vassiliadu Agapi P, Polykandriotis Elias, Tjiawi Jimmy, Arkudas Andreas, Horch Raymund E
Erlangen, Germany From the Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Erlangen Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Europakanal Medical Center.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2007 Dec;120(7):2076-2081. doi: 10.1097/01.prs.0000295985.51578.77.
The purposes of the authors' analysis were to assess the values that plastic surgical journals demonstrate in terms of the standardized measures created by the Institute for Scientific Information's Journal Citation Report, and to assess the relationship between these values and the turnaround time of these journals.
The overall indexes of surgical journals were compared with those of journals in other fields of medicine using the following parameters: highest impact factor, average impact factor, cited half-life, immediacy index, and number of journals. Similarly, plastic surgery journals were compared with the highest ranking journals from various fields of surgery. In addition, an evaluation of all original articles published in 2005, assessing the time intervals from submission to publication, submission to acceptance, and acceptance to publication, was conducted for all plastic surgical journals and the highest ranking journals from various surgical fields listed in the Journal Citation Report.
Plastic surgical journals demonstrated low overall index values and a greater elongation of their turnaround time in comparison to journals in other fields of surgery and medicine.
The fact that the field of plastic surgery targets a rather specific and limited medical audience, and that plastic surgical articles usually get quoted by this audience, partly explains these values. Furthermore, the elongated turnaround time contributes to their endurance. Since plastic surgical journals cannot attract a broader medical audience, journals should speed up their publication times to help these values rise.
作者分析的目的是评估整形外科学术期刊在科学信息研究所《期刊引证报告》制定的标准化指标方面所体现的价值，并评估这些价值与这些期刊周转时间之间的关系。
使用以下参数将外科学术期刊的总体指标与其他医学领域期刊的指标进行比较：最高影响因子、平均影响因子、被引半衰期、即时指数和期刊数量。同样，将整形外科学术期刊与各外科领域排名最高的期刊进行比较。此外，对2005年发表的所有原创文章进行评估，统计所有整形外科学术期刊以及《期刊引证报告》中列出的各外科领域排名最高的期刊从投稿到发表、从投稿到录用以及从录用至发表的时间间隔。
与其他外科和医学领域的期刊相比，整形外科学术期刊的总体指标值较低，周转时间更长。
整形外科学领域面向特定且有限的医学受众，整形外科学术文章通常被该受众引用，这在一定程度上解释了这些指标值。此外，较长的周转时间也导致了这些指标值的持续存在。由于整形外科学术期刊无法吸引更广泛的医学受众，期刊应加快出版时间以提升这些指标值。
