Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Pavia, Italy -
Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hacettepe University Medical School, Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey.
Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2018 Oct;54(5):792-796. doi: 10.23736/S1973-9087.18.05462-X. Epub 2018 Aug 29.
This report aims to complement and update a series of papers published in the last decade on bibliometrics regarding journals related to physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM). It targets clinicians and researchers (academic and non-academic) in our discipline who would like to use bibliometric indicators as a complementary "tool" to integrate into their expert practice of journal evaluation. Different journal-based metrics are analysed in order to provide a wide (albeit general) view of the performance of top PRM journals. First, we provide some brief preliminary remarks useful for an informed understanding of our results: 1) an update on bibliometric indicators and multidisciplinary databases of peer-reviewed literature; 2) the meaning of some bibliometric indicators; 3) the practical message related to this report: "keep it simple." Then, we profile the performance of 22 PRM core journals, according to six widely used bibliometric indicators. Indicators are grouped into three categories defined by their quartile classification (Three Star: top quartile; Two Star: second upper quartile; One Star: under the median). In conclusion, bibliometrics is just one of the key methods used for measuring the (supposed) 'impact' of scholarly publications and it represents only a raw proxy for the real impact or value of the research. This report wishes to add a small contribution for a simplified understanding of journal-level indicators in PRM, to support informed decisions on which high-level journals merit special attention by clinicians and researchers working in our discipline.
本报告旨在补充和更新过去十年中发表的一系列关于与物理和康复医学（PRM）相关期刊的文献计量学论文。它针对的是我们学科中的临床医生和研究人员（学术和非学术），他们希望将文献计量指标用作期刊评估的专家实践的补充“工具”。分析了不同的基于期刊的指标，以便对顶级 PRM 期刊的表现提供广泛（尽管是一般性的）看法。首先，我们提供了一些简短的初步说明，有助于深入了解我们的结果：1）对文献计量指标和同行评审文献的多学科数据库的更新；2）一些文献计量指标的含义；3）与本报告相关的实际信息：“保持简单”。然后，我们根据六个广泛使用的文献计量指标对 22 种 PRM 核心期刊的表现进行了分析。指标分为三类，按四分位数分类（三星：前四分之一；二星：上四分之二；一星：中位数以下）。总之，文献计量学只是用于衡量学术出版物（假设）“影响”的关键方法之一，它仅代表研究的实际影响或价值的原始代理。本报告旨在为 PRM 中的期刊指标提供一个简化的理解，以支持临床医生和研究人员在我们学科中对哪些高级期刊值得特别关注做出明智的决策。
