Yaminfirooz Mousa, Ardali Farzaneh Raeesi
General Education Department, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Library and Information Science, Aryan Institute of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran.
Acta Inform Med. 2018;26(1):10-14. doi: 10.5455/aim.2018.26.10-14.
Nowadays, publishing highly-cited papers is important for researchers and editors. In this evidence-based study, the factors influencing the citability of published papers in the field of medicine have been identified.
200 papers indexed in Scopus (in two groups: highly-cited and lowly-cited) with 100 papers in each were studied. Needed data were manually collected with a researcher-made checklist. Data analysis was done in SPSS using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Variables such as journal IF, journal rank, journal subject quartile, the first/corresponding author's h-index, the number of documents produced by the first/corresponding author, SJR and SNIP had significantly positive correlation with paper citability (p< .05). Other variables, including among others, paper age, paper type, the number of references, the number of authors, indexing institute and journal kind had not any relationship with paper citability (p> .05).
the factors affecting the citability are among indicators relating to authors, publishing journals and published papers. Determining the extent to which these factors influence the citability of a paper needs further large-scaled research. Authors and editors searching for high-citedness should consider these factors when authoring and publishing papers.
如今，发表高被引论文对研究人员和编辑来说很重要。在这项基于证据的研究中，已确定了医学领域已发表论文被引可能性的影响因素。
研究了Scopus数据库中索引的200篇论文（分为两组：高被引和低被引），每组各100篇。所需数据通过研究人员制作的清单手动收集。使用描述性和推断性统计方法在SPSS中进行数据分析。
期刊影响因子、期刊排名、期刊学科四分位数、第一/通讯作者的h指数、第一/通讯作者发表的文献数量、SJR和SNIP等变量与论文被引可能性呈显著正相关（p <.05）。其他变量，包括论文发表年份、论文类型、参考文献数量、作者数量、索引机构和期刊种类等，与论文被引可能性没有任何关系（p>.05）。
影响被引可能性的因素存在于与作者、发表期刊和已发表论文相关的指标之中。确定这些因素对论文被引可能性的影响程度需要进一步的大规模研究。追求高被引的作者和编辑在撰写和发表论文时应考虑这些因素。
