RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY IN PAKISTAN HEART JOURNAL FROM 2005 TO 2018: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY.

Autor: Ullah, Saeed, Jan, Saeed Ullah, Ur Rehman, Habib, Butt, Najma Iqbal, Rauf, Muhammad Abdur, Shah, Sabir, Jan, Muhammad Yahya
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Zdroj: Pakistan Heart Journal; 2019, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p117-123, 7p
Abstrakt: Objective: To describe bibliometric study of scholarly literature published in Pakistan Heart Journal covering period from 2005 to 2018 and to explore publication trends. Methodology: This quantitative study applied bibliometric methods to analyze original articles, authorship pattern, citations, contributions from different regions and other relevant parameters of Pakistan Heart Journal covering period from January 2005 to December 2018. The data was collected from Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Library Hayatabad Peshawar and official website of PHJ. Results: The study reveals that number of articles published in issues of the journal per year ranged from 09 to 57. Cardiology is main subject area covered in the articles with stable Ischemic heart disease as leading topic (15.46%) followed by Preventive cardiology (14.40%), Interventional cardiology, Heart failure and Acute Coronary Syndrome. Articles with three authors were more in numbers (23.30%). Journal (95.53%) proved to be the more cited source of information. Variation was found in the number of references cited in each article (40.05%) (153) articles had 11-20 references. Article's length was analyzed and it was revealed that a majority (30.22%) of articles comprised of five pages. In regards to productivity, more authors belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region(40.96%). Number of articles submitted by foreign authors has shown a steady increase reflecting international acceptance and recognition. Conclusion: Pakistan Heart Journal is more than fifty years old journal with gradual increase in number of articles in the last seven years. This is specialtyorientated journal about heart diseases, larger number of articles were on ischemic heart disease followed by preventive cardiology, interventional cardiology and heart failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index