Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date of this Version
11-2019
Abstract
Number of journals is raising exponentially. Consequently authors have a problem which journal to select when publishing their research. Journal portfolios including information like impact factors and productivity trends, state of the art topics, topics evolution and citation patterns might help authors to select the journal where their paper will have optimal chances to be published, read and cited. To build portfolios we used two approaches; namely descriptive bibliometric analysis to extract distribution of types of documents, most prolific authors, institutions, countries, citation histories, etc. and bibliometric mapping to visualize the content
Our study showed that journals portfolios can improve evidence based nursing and on the other hand offer health librarians an opportunity to extend their services and help prospective authors to select the optimal journal to publish their research.