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An overview on the scientometric advancement
of the eJIFCC
1 1 2
János Kappelmayer , Harjit Pal Bhattoa , Gábor L. Kovács
1
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2
Szentágothai János Research Center, University of Pécs, Hungary
ARTICLE INFO REPORT
Corresponding author: The history of the electronic Journal of the Interna
János Kappelmayer, MD, PhD tional Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory
Department of Laboratory Medicine Medicine (eJIFCC) dates back over 20 years. Browsing
Faculty of Medicine
University of Debrecen the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and
Nagyerdei krt 98. Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) website one can witness
4032 Debrecen that the earliest issues date back to the previous mil
Hungary
E-mail: kappelmayer@med.unideb.hu lennium. The eJIFCC publishes Thematic Issues as well
Key words: as Issues with Free Communications, where the pub
Cite Score, Impact Factor, SCImago lication types can be Reviews, Original Articles, Case
Reports and Letters. While assessing the volume of
the published issues, it can be promptly realized
that the annual published page count has increased
considerably in recent years. All eJIFCC issues from
1999 onward are available online and are indexed,
in a searchable, downloadable, and citable from on
PubMed as of 2018. Since its conception, the eJIFCC
has remained a Platinum Open Access Journal, dis
tributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial License, that provides a
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venue to all individuals who intend to publish in of the eJIFCC? In this short report, we delineate
the vast field of laboratory medicine. The num the path that the eJIFCC has followed in the past
ber of submissions for Free Communications has years and seek to characterize the journal by var
significantly increased from year to year, and ac ious objective scientometric parameters.
cording to figures from the past four years, and Evaluation by SCImago
because of a strict peer review process, 71% of
the submitted Free Communications were re The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a widely ac
jected and the reminder, 29%, were accepted, cepted form of the real influence of a scientific
almost always following minor or major revision. journal. This evaluation accounts for both the
Global interest in the eJIFCC is illustrated by the number of citations received by a journal and
geographical diversity of the published manu the importance or prestige of the journals where
scripts (Table 1). In the past four years, on av the citations come from. A journal’s SJR is a nu
erage 41 papers (range: 36-47) were published meric value indicating the average number of
annually in a quarterly manner. This represents weighted citations received during a selected
a significant increase as compared to the earlier year per document published in that journal
years. It is also important that all involved strive during the previous three years. The SJR indica
to minimize the turnaround time of the accept tor has been developed to be used in extremely
ed papers (i.e., from acceptance to publication). large and heterogeneous journal citation net
The quality of the published issues and individ works. It is a size-independent indicator, and its
ual papers has improved remarkably over the values rank journals by their “average prestige
years thanks to our publisher Insoft Canada Inc. per article” and can be used for journal com
parisons in science evaluation processes. The
The query naturally arises whether the increment SJR indicator computation is carried out using
in the number of publications and printed pages an iterative algorithm that distributes prestige
is accompanied with an enhanced recognition values among the journals until a steady-state
Table 1 Accepted manuscripts in the eJIFCC
by geographical distribution in the period 2018-2021
Europe Asia America Africa Oceania
(76 papers) (31 papers) (20 papers) (20 papers) (1 paper)
18: Italy 12: India 7: Canada, United States 10: Ethiopia 1: New
Zealand
16: Spain 6: Nepal 3: Argentina 3: Morocco
11 : Hungary 5: Turkey 2: Mexico 2: Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa
6: Greece 3: Pakistan 1: Ecuador 1: Algeria
5: Belgium, UK 2: Syria
2: Austria, France 1: Bangladesh,
Germany, Malta Japan, Malaysia
1: Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Lithuania,
Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia
The eJIFCC is open to all who submit valuable materials. As can be seen, accepted papers (reviews, original articles, case
reports, letters) published in the period (2018-2021) were submitted from 5 continents and 37 different countries.
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solution is reached. The SJR algorithm begins Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database, which is
by setting an identical amount of prestige to published by Clarivate. Furthermore, to accom
each journal, then using an iterative procedure, modate annuals or other publications with irreg
this prestige is redistributed in a process where ular frequency, the JCR also includes a five-year
journals transfer their achieved prestige to each impact factor which is a ratio of the citations to
other through citations. The process ends up a given journal each year and the number of cit
when the difference between journal prestige able items published in the given journal during
values in consecutive iterations do not reach a the preceding five years.
minimum threshold value anymore. The process The application for inclusion of eJIFCC to the
is developed in two phases, (i) the computation Web of Science core collection was submitted
of Prestige SJR (PSJR) for each journal: a size-de in March 2019. But following announcement
pendent measure that reflects the whole journal of a new submission system in May 2021, our
prestige, and (ii) the normalization of this mea pending application was earmarked for resub
sure to achieve a size-independent measure of mission, and the eJIFCC is still under evaluation
prestige, the SJR indicator. SCImago Journal Rank by Clarivate.
was developed by Scimago Lab. and it originates
from a research group at University of Granada. Evaluation by Cite Score
Based on the above criteria, journals are cat The Cite Score (CS) of an academic journal is a
egorized into quartiles each representing 25% measure reflecting the yearly average number of
of the total sum and Q1 being the most highly citations to recent articles published in that jour
cited journals. Within this quartile, a D1 group nal. This journal evaluation metric is relatively
is a subcategory that labels the top 10% of the new and was launched in December 2016 by
journals in that category. By using this evalu Elsevier as an alternative to the generally used
ation, the eJIFCC ranks 24 out of 59 Medical JCR impact factors (calculated by Clarivate). Cite
Biochemistry journals and falls into the Q2 Score is based on the citations recorded in the
(Quartile 2) category along with several other Scopus database rather than in JCR, and those
respected laboratory journals. citations are collected for articles published in
Evaluation by Impact Factor the preceding four years instead of two or five.
The founder of the Institute of Scientific Infor- In any given year, the Cite Score of a journal is
mation, Eugene Garfield, devised the impact the number of citations, received in that year
factor. For any given year, the ratio between and previous 3 years, for documents published in
the number of citations received in that year the journal during that period (four years), divid
for publications in the given journal that were ed by the total number of published documents
published in the preceding two years and the (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chap
total number of citable items published in that ters, and data papers) in the journal during the
journal during the two preceding years is the same four-year period. The calculation date for
so-called two-year journal impact factor. Citable each given Cite Score as later additions, correc
items are publications that are classified as ar tions or deletions to the data will not lead to a
ticle, review, or proceedings paper in the Web of score update. Scopus also provides the projected
Science database, as such editorials, corrections, Cite Scores for the next year, which are updated
notes, retractions, and discussions are excluded. every month. Before 2020, the score was calcu
The number of citations is extracted from the lated differently: in a given year, the Cite Score of
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a journal was the number of citations, received in a subject field. The impact of a single citation
in that year, of articles published in that journal is given higher value in subject areas where ci
during the three preceding years, divided by the tations are less likely, and vice versa. Unlike the
total number of “citable items” published in that well-known journal impact factor, SNIP corrects
journal during the three preceding years: The for differences in citation practices between
Cite Score of the eJIFCC for 2020 was 2.7, and as scientific fields, thereby allowing for more ac
it looks in early November 2021 the Cite Score curate between-field comparisons of citation
tracker for 2021 indicates a value of 4.9. When impact. CWTS Journal Indicators also provides
compared to more established and respected stability intervals that indicate the reliability of
journals, the eJIFCC has now also gained visibility the SNIP value of a journal. SNIP was created by
on the Cite Score map (Figure 1). Professor Henk F. Moed at the Centre for Science
Evaluation by the Source Normalized and Technology Studies (CWTS), University of
Impact per Paper Leiden.
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) mea The advantage of using SNIP are the followings:
sures contextual citation impact by weighting ci - • Measures contextual citation impact by
tations based on the total number of citations ‘normalizing’ citation values.
Figure 1 Cite Score value (blue bars) and Percentile category (red lines)
of selected clinical laboratory journals
Respected clinical laboratory journals have a Cite Score value in the range of 5-10 and a percentile value in the upper
quadrant, but with potential fluctuation in some cases (panels A-C). Other less known laboratory journals have lower Cite
Score values and some are only present on this metric scale in recent years. Panel F demonstrates the steady increase for
both Cite Score and Percentile parameters in case of the eJIFCC.
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