Polat Barış, Özmanevra Ramadan, Özmanevra Pınar Tunçbilek, Kazıkdaş Kadir Çağdaş
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of Kyrenia, Faculty of Medicine, 99320 Kyrenia, Cyprus.
Eklem Hastalik Cerrahisi. 2019 Aug;30(2):163-7. doi: 10.5606/ehc.2019.64729.
This study aims to compare the annual impact factors (IFs) for the period 1999-2017 and the tri-annual IFs in 2011, 2014 and 2017 of the subscription access (SA) and open access (OA) journals published in the field of orthopedics, traumatology and sports medicine according to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR).
All data for this study were obtained from the SCImago Journal & Country Rank database. We compared the change in the mean annual IFs of 197 SA journals with 52 OA journals in the field of orthopedics and sports medicine for the period between 1999 and 2017. In addition, we determined and compared the changes in the mean tri-annual IFs of these journals in 2011, 2014 and 2017. The mean publication fee values of the OA journals as well as the correlation between the three-year IFs of the year 2017 and the publication fee values were evaluated.
From 1999 to 2017, the mean IF of SA journals increased 0.47-fold to 0.69, while the mean IF of the OA journals increased 0.85-fold to 0.63. Significant positive correlation was observed between the tri-annual IF and publication fee of OA journals in 2017 (r=0.458, p=0.001).
We can predict that the mean IFs of OA journals in the field of orthopedics and sports medicine will reach the mean IFs of SA journals after several years. Choosing OA journals becomes advantageous when the desire for a higher number of citations is the most important factor.
本研究旨在根据Scimago期刊排名（SJR），比较1999 - 2017年期间骨科、创伤学和运动医学领域订阅获取（SA）期刊与开放获取（OA）期刊的年度影响因子（IF），以及2011年、2014年和2017年的三年期IF。
本研究的所有数据均来自Scimago期刊与国家排名数据库。我们比较了1999年至2017年期间骨科和运动医学领域197种SA期刊与52种OA期刊的年均IF变化。此外，我们还确定并比较了这些期刊在2011年、2014年和2017年的三年期平均IF变化。评估了OA期刊的平均出版费用值以及2017年三年期IF与出版费用值之间的相关性。
1999年至2017年，SA期刊的平均IF增长了0.47倍，达到0.69，而OA期刊的平均IF增长了0.85倍，达到0.63。2017年OA期刊的三年期IF与出版费用之间存在显著正相关（r = 0.458，p = 0.001）。
我们可以预测，骨科和运动医学领域OA期刊的平均IF在几年后将达到SA期刊的平均IF。当对更高引用次数的需求是最重要因素时，选择OA期刊会更具优势。
