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Comparing Bibliometric Analysis Using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science Databases
Published on: October 24, 2019
[Evaluation of scientific and medical articles]
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Abstract:
Quality assessment of publications article is now teached during medical studies and will soon be included into the program of the internship examination. The impact factor of medical journals is frequently used to evaluate the scientific quality of an article and consequently as an index of scientific productivity. Impact factor is an indicator of citation but not of the quality of an article and should not be used as a unique criterion for evaluating the quality of medical or scientific research works.
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