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Comparing Bibliometric Analysis Using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science Databases
Published on: October 24, 2019
[Comparative analysis of impact factor and h-index for pharmacology journals]
Pascal Bador1, Thierry Lafouge
1Université de Lyon 1, Equipe ELICO, ISPB, Faculté de Pharmacie, Lyon, France. pascal.bador@univ-lyon1.fr
Abstract:
Using the strictly same parameters (identical two publication years (2004-2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), impact factor (IF) 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for one sample of "pharmacology and pharmacy" journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For this sample, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is low for "pharmacology and pharmacy" journals. The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.
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