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Published on: July 5, 2011
Dominance of foreign citations in Brazilian orthopedics journals
Renan Kleber Costa Teixeira1, Vitor Nagai Yamaki1, Rita de Cássia Rodrigues Rosa1
1University of the State of Pará (UEPA), Belém, PA, Brazil.
Objective:
To evaluate whether there is any preference for citing journals from other countries to the detriment of Brazilian journals, in three Brazilian orthopedics journals.
Methods:
All the references of articles published in 2011 by the journals Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, Coluna/Columna and Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia were evaluated to as certain how many of these came from Brazilian journals and how many from foreign journals.
Results:
3813 references distributed among 187 articles were analyzed. Out of this total, 306 (8.02%) were from Brazilian journals. There was no difference between the three journals analyzed. There were 76 articles (40.64%) without any citations of articles in Brazilian journals and only two articles (1%) cited more Brazilian articles than articles published elsewhere.
Conclusion:
There is a need for Brazilian researchers to cite articles from Brazilian journals more often.
