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Med. Pr. 2006;57(3):303-309

Medycyna Pracy: The SCOPUS-based analysis of citations

Analiza cytowań czasopisma medycyna pracy na podstawie bazy SCOPUS

Jolanta Przyłuska Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland

Abstract

Medycyna Pracy, a Polish bimonthly published since 1950, forms a long-standing documentation of studies carried out in the area of workers' health protection. The journal is primarily addressed to occupational health physicians and work hygiene specialists in Poland. It is indexed by numerous foreign information services (e.g., MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS PREVIEWS, BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, SCOPUS) and thus promotes Polish research in occupational medicine throughout the world. The quantitative analysisfor the years 1996ś2005, grounded on the SCOPUS database, presents an average number of citations concerning a given volume, frequency of citations, articles most frequently cited, and countries, in which articles published in Medycyna Pracy havebeen referred to. A growing number of citations observed in the recent years signify the importance of issues investigated and discussed in the journal as well as its role in the world-wide circulation of scientific information.

Key words

occupational medicine, biomedical journals, databases, citation analysis