Table 1 Veterinary journals indexed by Scopus in 2011, by region of publication*
Variable | Western Europe | Eastern Europe | Africa | North America | Latin America | Middle East | Asia | Pacific | World |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. journals (% of world) | 82 (49.7) | 14 (8.4) | 2 (1.2) | 25 (15.2) | 13 (7.9) | 6 (3.6) | 20 (12.1) | 3 (1.8) | 165 (100) |
No. open-access (% of world) | 6 (17.6) | 4 (11.8) | 2 (5.9) | 1 (2.9) | 11 (32.4) | 4 (11.8) | 6 (17.6) | 0 (0) | 34 (100) |
Impact factor, median (range)† | 1.26 (0.03-4.25) | 0.49 (0.17-0.67) | 0.51, 0.52 | 0.94 (0.29-3.32) | 0.31 (0.18-0.61) | 0.29 (0.19-0.48) | 0.32 (0.02-1.21) | 0.95 (0.05-1.16) | 0.92 (0.02-4.25) |
SJR, median (range) | 0.05 (0.03-0.25) | 0.03 (0.03-0.05) | 0.04 | 0.05 (0.03-0.15) | 0.03 (0.03-04) | 0.03 (0.03) | 0.03 (0.03-0.15) | 0.05 (0.03-0.06) | 0.04 (0.03-0.25) |
Journal H-index, median (range) | 19 (1-73) | 9 (2-20) | 20 (18, 22) | 21 (1-62) | 6 (2-16) | 3 (1-14) | 6 (1-22) | 27 (10-31) | 14 (1-73) |
No. articles last 3 years (% of world) | 27,906 (53.3) | 3428 (6.6) | 245 (0.5) | 7375 (14.1) | 4463 (8.5) | 1112 (2.1) | 7147 (13.7) | 646 (1.2) | 52,322 (100) |
No. citations last 3 years (% of world) | 20,077 (70.4) | 680 (2.4) | 64 (0.2) | 4857 (17.0) | 950 (3.3) | 270 (0.9) | 1379 (4.8) | 236 (0.8) | 28,513 (100) |
Uncited articles last 3 years (% of articles) | 17,723 (63.5) | 2907 (84.8) | 196 (80.0) | 4970 (67.4) | 3704 (83.0) | 905 (81.4) | 6170 (86.3) | 504 (78.0) | 37,079 (70.8) |
Self-citations last 3 years, (% of citations)§ | 3739 (18.6) | 146 (21.5) | 12 (18.8) | 912 (18.8) | 226 (23.8) | 119 (44.1) | 141 (10.2) | 35 (14.8) | 5358 (18.8) |
Citations/article last 2 years, median (range) | 0.52 (0-1.93) | 0.17 (0.08-0.43) | 0.23 (0.17, 0.29) | 0.42 (0-2.04) | 0.08 (0-0.32) | 0.13 (0.07-0.36) | 0.11 (0-0.79) | 0.51 (0-0.57) | 0.28 (0-2.04) |
Language of publication (No. journals) | English (55), German (7), German-English (5), French (4), French-English (2), English-German-French (1), Spanish (2), Spanish-English (1), Dutch (1), Dutch-English (1), Italian-English (2), Japanese-English (1) | English (11), Hungarian (1), Lithuanian-English (1), Polish-English (1) | English (1), English-Afrikaans (1) | English (25) | Portuguese-English (6), Portuguese-Spanish-English (3), Spanish-English (3), Spanish (1) | English (1), Turkish-English (3), Arabic-English (1), Hebrew-English (1) | English (19), Korean-English (1) | English (3) | English only (115), non-English only (16), mixed (34) |
Species-specific journals | FA (11), SA (10), EQ (7) | FA (1), SA (1) | — | FA (3), SA (6) | — | — | FA (3), EQ (1) | SA (1) | FA (18), SA (18), EQ (8) |