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Comparisons of Bibliometric Indices to Gauge the Quality of Virology Journals Md Safiqur Rahaman1,*, Hashem Hussein Al-Attas1, Khadeeja MN Ansari2 Journal of Scientometric Res. 2021; 10(1):119-125 http://www.jscires.org Research-in-Progress Comparisons of Bibliometric Indices to Gauge the Quality of Virology Journals Md Safiqur Rahaman1,*, Hashem Hussein Al-Attas1, Khadeeja MN Ansari2 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA. College of Design, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, KSA. Correspondence Md Safiqur Rahaman ABSTRACT Deanship of Library Affairs, King Fahd The study proposed identifying and assessing virology journals’ quality by virtue of University of Petroleum and Minerals, internationally accepted bibliometric indicators, namely, JIF, CS, SJR, and h5-index. The data collected from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google metrics for the year Dhahran, KSA. 2018 under the category ‘Virology’. Thirty-six journals retrieved, then ranks and val- Email: [email protected] ues of journals compared with each indicator’s metrics. To assess the compatibility, the bivariate correlation coefficient calculated using SPSS. Microsoft Excel and Mi- Received: 10-12-2020 crosoft access 2010 used to analyze and visualize the journal’s ranking with each Revised: 07-03-2021 indicator. The results exclaim except Cell Host and Microbe, none of the journals Accepted: 09-04-2021 shows a similar ranking in all four indicators. Only seven journals are open access, DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.14 and the rest of the 29 closed access—the USA leading ‘Virology’ researches. The calculation of the correlation coefficient indicates that all the indicators are compat- ible and can be used as an alternative to others to assess the journals’ quality. Main- stream researchers in virology can securely utilize the SJR and h5-index indices as feasible options to JIF. Keywords: Bibliometrics, Journal impact factor, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank, H5 and Virology. INTRODUCTION quality journal is one of the significant tasks of the researchers. However, scientometric analysis of ‘virology’ has been The word virus originates from the Latin, which means conducted occasionally,[5] but the bibliometric analysis to poison or foul issue, appeared in English to indicate an check Virology journals’ quality never been undertaken so infectious disease. Studies on viruses and infectious diseases far. Therefore, this study conducted to evaluate the quality are called virology.[1] Virology is a scientific discipline which of virology journals by using bibliometric indicators, such as deals with the biology, ecology, evolution, interaction, Journal Impact Factor (JIF), Cite Score (CS), SCImago Journal and cooperation of viruses. Also, it deals with viral diseases, Rank (SJR), and 5 index. different microorganisms, and the capacity of infections to h convey their own and heterologous hereditary information Eugen Garfield first introduced the concept of impact factor into cells. Virus and viral ailments have been at the focuses in 1955. The JIF is included in the JCR from 1975 forward.[6] of science, agriculture, and medication for centuries.[2] The The Journal impact factor calculation is based on a previous bibliometric indicators are crucial in assessing the quality two year period. It involves dividing the number of times of a journal; these indicators increasingly used to measure articles cited by the number of citable articles. Estimation of researchers’ and educators’ success and prestige.[3] The 2018 Journal impact factor as: significance of publishing articles in high impact journals A JIF 2018 = (1) increased gradually. It is compulsory in most academic B organizations for the promotion and hence gained the Therefore, attention of virologists, policymakers, researchers, and librarians. Simultaneously, publishing research articles in high A = Number of citations in 2018 to articles published in 2016 impact journal helps to attract more audiences, and it might and 2017 in a journal lead a researcher to be famous and well-read.[4] Identifying a B = Number of articles published in 2016 and 2017 in a Journal Copyright © The Author(s). 2021 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative However, JIF criticized the incorporation of references Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/li- of articles that excluded from the calculation formula’s censes/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the denominator (editorial, letters, etc.). Just a 2-year time frame source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes for analysis, the consideration of self-citations, English were made. language bias, and absence of an evaluation of the quality of the Journal of Scientometric Research, Vol 10, Issue 1, Jan-Apr 2021 119 Rahaman, et al.: Gauging the Quality of Virology Journals [7] origin of the citation or the risk of manipulation. CiteScore and SJR), and from the Google scholar metrics (h5-index) as is another bibliometric indicator to measure the quality of of 13th May 2020. The data strategically filtered as JCR year [8] academic Journals. It comprises of three-years citation ‘2018’, edition ‘SCIE,’ categories’ virology’, selected category window. CiteScore incorporates all types of documents, such scheme ‘Web of Science.’ Thirty-six journals have retrieved as articles, reviews, letters, notes, editorials, conference papers, and analyzed by using different indicators and parameters. etc., indexed in Scopus. Subsequently, the numerator and JIF considered a principle indicator to compare with other the denominator utilized in the CiteScore calculation are indicators (CS, SJR, and h5-Index). To assess the compatibility reliable.[9] An example of the CiteScore calculation of 2019 of the indicators as an alternative to each other for assessment of given below[10] virology journals, Pearson’s (r) and Spearman’s (ρ) correlation No of Citations (2018,2017,2016) coefficient calculated by using IBM SPSS (version 21.0). CS 2019 (2) Documents published in 2016-2018 Microsoft Access (2010) and Microsoft Excel (2010) used for data visualization and representation. CiteScore praised for including all types of publications to evaluate but criticized as problematic to ‘penalize’ titles like Data analysis and interpretations and titles publish a significant volume Nature The Lancet. These General Assessment: The general assessment of virology of front matter content (editorials, notes, letters to the editor, journal reflects that: etc.), which typically not all around cited (if at all), which may function a key in scholarly communication or professional Type of access: Out of 36 journals, only 7 (19.44 %) are open practice.[11] access, and the rest of 29 (80.56%) are closed access. SCImago is another bibliometric indicator that supported Country-wise distribution: The USA is leading in virology calculation as Google PageRank. This indicator shows the publications, i.e., 13 out of 36 journals. The UK ranks second visibility of the journal contained in the Scopus database (8 journals), followed by Netherland (6 journals), Switzerland from 1996.[12] The websites of the SCImago is https:// and Germany (2 journals) each. France, China, South Africa, www.scimagojr.com/index.php. SJR utilizes a 3-year UAE, and Slovakia publish 1 journal out of 36. citation window.[13] Calculation of SCImago Journal rank as The journals are already arranged in JIF by their mentioned in the equation below Quartile: Average # of weighted citations received in a year quartile and hence ranked accordingly. The first nine (9) CS 2019 (3) journals are Q1, and the next nine (9) journals are Q2, Q3, # of documents published in the previous three years Q4, respectively (Table 1). h5-index is the product of Google scholar metrics, https:// [14] scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en. h5-index defined as “It is Table 2: Bivariate correlation. the largest number of h such that h articles published in the Coefficient Correlation statistic Significant last five (5) years have at least h citation each”. Therefore, the Values h5 index of 100 means that the journal published 100 articles Pearson’s r between JIF and CS values 0.895 0.000 in the past five (5) years, with at least 100 or more citations Pearson’s r between JIF and SJR values 0.883 0.000 each.[14] Pearson’s r between JIF and H5 Values 0.701 0.000 Spearman’s rho between JIF and CS ranks 0.841 0.000 Objectives of the study Spearman’s rho between JIF and SJR ranks 0.702 0.000 This research’s main objective is to evaluate the journals’ Spearman’s rho between JIF and H5 ranks 0.614 0.000 quality that publishes the research in the virology field. The assessment carried out by employing various globally accepted bibliometric indicators (employed by many databases), Top five ranked journals of all indices namely JIF, CS, SJR, and h5-index. Also, this study compared Journal impact factor (JIF): The top five JIF rank virology the indictor’s compatibility with each other to employ one journals are Cell host and microbe (15.753), Annual Review indicator with respect to another without compromising the of Virology (6.566), Plos Pathogens (6.463), Advances in Virus quality by using bivariate correlation coefficient analysis in Research (5.6), Virus evolution (5.408). The journal Cell host SPSS software to ensure the error-free result. and microbe possess the highest impact factor (15.753), and Journal Virologie represent the lowest impact factor (0.161). METHODS AND MATERIALS CiteScore (CS): The top five rank journals are Cell host and The journals metric retrieved from the web of science (JIF), microbe (10.5), Annual Review of Virology (6.57), Plos Pathogens from SCImago (SJR), from the Scopus database (CiteScore (6.02), Advances in Virus Research (5.46), and Current Opinion 120 Journal of Scientometric Research, Vol 10, Issue 1, Jan-Apr 2021 Rahaman, et al.: Gauging the Quality of Virology Journals in Virology (4.79). Interestingly, the top four journals of the JIF indicator and CS indicator shows equal ranks.
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