Tıp ve Sağlık Bilimleri Alanında Türkiye'de Yayınlanan Akademik Süreli Yayınlarda Niteliği Etkileyen Nedenler ve Kaliteyi Yükseltme : Reasons Affecting Academic Qualifications of Scholarly Journals on Medical and Health Sciences Published in Turkey and Upgrading Quality

摘要

After the information explosion serials have increased rapidly. This increase required decision according to the criteria defined by the international databases. Selected journals were indexed by the international databases and presented to researchers worldwide. Articles in these databases were used and cited by researchers. As a result of this statistical information collected, it was used in the measurement of scientific activities. For example for authors, articles, journals, institutions, countries. These measurements can be made only with a few databases. In these databases using factor of citations received, used in measuring quality of journals. In the course of time, it was accepted in the scientific world that quality criteria of an academic journal being indexed in international databases and having high impact factors. These criteria were used as selection criteria in libraries to manage serials collections. Academic journals which do not meet these criteria stayed out of range and the problem occurred while these journals are being published.In this context, a study which cannot be accessed cannot be read. Unread publications cannot be cited. If the journal is not cited it’s impact factor will be low. Researchers do not want to send their publications to Journals with low impact factors with the concern of their publications not being read. If a journal cannot find a quality article to publish, it is going to end soon. In the light of these considerations, this study to primarily aims to investigate the causes of negative affects on the scientific quality of national periodicals. In this direction the most important two negative reasons of national academic serials publishing are national scientific policy in practice and accessibility to journals that are the subjects of this thesis. In our study national journals which were published in the field of medicine and health sciences were detected and access status in libraries and databases are investigated to find out the effect of scientific policy in practice on the national academic journals. We examined the journals and publications which are in the collections of national and international databases.