Making an impact: Research, publications, and bibliometrics in the BJGP

摘要

In June 2011 Thomson-Reuters' Journat Citation Reports~R - Science Edition service published the Impact Factors of all peer reviewed academic journals. Fourteen of the thousands of publications analysed are now grouped in a single subject area called Primary Health Care. With a 2010 Impact Factor (IF) of 2.070 the British Journal of General Practice [BJGP) remains the world's second most highly-cited journal of general practice and primary health care. The 2010 IF is a figure representing the mean number of times peer-reviewed papers published in a journal in 2008 and 2009 are cited in other journals, or are self-cited in the journal of origin, during 2010. The total number of research papers published in the BJGP in 2008-2009 was 185 and the total number of cites in 2010 was 383, giving the IF of 2.070. In common with a number of other general medical and primary care journals, the BJGP's IF has fallen since last year.