Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University-Peninsula Campus, Building G, Fourth Floor, McMahons Road, Frankston, Victoria 3199, Australia.
Am J Occup Ther. 2011 May-Jun;65(3):346-50. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2011.001396.
Journal quality metrics (also referred to as bibliometrics), such as impact factors, are increasingly being used as a measure of researchers' and educators' success and prestige. Occupational therapists who submit articles to peer-reviewed journals may face a professional and research dilemma: Do they submit their articles to journals that largely have a professional audience and potentially do not have an impact factor, or do they opt not to publish their research material in occupational therapy-oriented journals? Occupational therapy authors can consider other journal quality metric alternatives, in addition to the impact factor option, including the Eigenfactor Score, Article Influence Score, h-index, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP), and discipline-specific generated journal quality measures. These other journal quality metrics can be important reference points for occupational therapists who publish and may encourage authors to publish in journals relevant to the discipline. This process, in turn, will build the occupational therapy body of knowledge as well as provide an essential, growing reference source for evidence-based practice.
期刊质量指标（也称为文献计量学），如影响因子，越来越多地被用作衡量研究人员和教育工作者成功和声望的标准。向同行评审期刊投稿的职业治疗师可能面临着一个专业和研究上的困境：他们是将文章提交给主要面向专业读者且可能没有影响因子的期刊，还是选择不在职业治疗期刊上发表他们的研究材料？职业治疗师作者除了影响因子选项外，还可以考虑其他期刊质量指标替代方案，包括特征因子得分、文章影响力得分、h 指数、SCImago 期刊排名（SJR）、归一化影响指标（SNIP）以及特定学科的期刊质量指标。这些其他期刊质量指标对于发表文章的职业治疗师来说是重要的参考点，并可能鼓励作者在与学科相关的期刊上发表文章。这反过来又将构建职业治疗知识体系，并为循证实践提供一个必不可少的、不断增长的参考来源。
