Bibliometrijska analiza člankov in citatov revije Zdravstveno varstvo : 1992-2003
Bibliometric analysis of articles and citation sources in the journal Zdravstveno varstvo : 1993-2003

slovenian

2005

volume 44, issue 1

Inštitut za varovanje zdravja RS
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Background: Scientific journals play an important role in the process of scientific communication and information exchange. Publishing the results of scientific research is the basic function of scientific information and communication. Through systematical data collection bibliometrics evaluates and analyses the articles published. Bibliometric analysis of a scientific journal is, to a great extent, also analysis of the research field covered by the respective journal. Objectives and methods: Quantitative bibliometric analysis of Zdravstveno varstvo issues from 1992 to 2000 provided an objectivepicture of the journal and its development over the period studied. Results and conclusion: Research in public health is undoubtedly a medical field with a distinctive sociological character. It is concerned with medicineand health care, and with health, as a social phenomenon. Public health research should be evaluated in a manner different than that used for research in other medical fields, e.g. clinical medicine. Similarly, articles published in the Slovene language in national periodicals have different weight and are evaluated in a specific way.

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