The main medical journal indexes are
The main medical journal indexes are
To be indexed in a bibliographic database is an important index of quality for serials.
Many factors are taken into account when evaluating journals for coverage ranging from the qualitative to the quantitative. These may include the following:
- Basic publishing standards
- Editorial content
- International focus
- Citation Analysis
Indexed journals are considered to be of higher scientific quality as compared to non-indexed journals.
i.e. Indexation of medical journals has become a debatable issue.
For a long-time Index Medicus has been the most comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles.Over the years, many other popular indexation services have developed. These include MedLine, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science,SCOPUS, EBSCO .....
To be indexed in google sholar isn't an index of quality, because Google Scholar is indexing everything seems to be "academic"...
To answer your first question (written as if you are running a journal):
"In order to be known as an authoritative source of scientific information, and to stand out from among many other publications that are crowding the publishing space, journals must increase their visibility, availability, and readership. One of the ways by which journals can achieve this is by getting their publication indexed by one or more leading databases.
Why is indexing essential?
Indexing will help your journal achieve its main purpose of being accessible to a wide audience.
Being accessible in turn will improve your journal’s reputation as a reliable source of high-quality information in your field.
Database research is the first activity researchers undertake as part of their study, and they naturally look to established, well-known databases. Thus, being indexed in a known database in your field will help increase your journal’s readership.
How does indexing work?
Once a journal is indexed by a database, it is immediately made available to all users of that database. Some databases index titles, some index full articles while some others index only the abstract and/or references. There are several abstracting and indexing services available today. Some are affiliated with institutions (e.g., PubMed maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health) while some are provided by publishers (e.g., Scopus by Elsevier). Irrespective of which institution the database is affiliated with, you will need to formally apply for inclusion in the database of your choice."
http://www.editage.com/insights/journal-indexing-101-understanding-the-basics
Google Scholar sacrifices complete (manual) accuracy for (computer) speed.
Because of this, unlike other indexing services, it is able to index the full textual contents, not just the title and abstract. (Search for the last sentence in your favourite paper!)
It covers all disciplines, and requires that the journal to have been continuously published for three years to ensure respectability. Furthermore, it also includes books and patents, and includes links to citations.
Unfortunately, MMSL journal is not indexed in PubMed and has not yet IF. Sometimes it is necessary to write the article also for lessons, not to raise the scientific prestige.
Magazine pages found on http://www.mmsl.cz/
Have a nice day.
JP
Dear sudhakar,
your RG score is 20.04, you just glance all your publications andjust think what is the base of this RG score? Indexing is not at all a criteria for publications. Now a days all the payed journals have got very high impact factors. Even though the quality of the papers is usually very poor... The high quality paper with high quality review will be done in journals with elsevier, SAGE, T&F, etc. If you have a good work to publish, its better to publish in unpayed journals.
Dear Sudhakar
Thank you so much for your so important question, I think that you will find detailed answer if you follow the link below:
http://www.scimagojr.com/
Regards
Emad
Indexed journal means those journals indexed by secondary services. for different subjects there are different abstracting and indexing services. for example Pubmed is one for biomedical journals
La indexación, no es otra cosa que la incorporación de las revistas a diversas bases de datos, las cuales, se perciben como legitimadoras de la calidad de las publicaciones científicas, dado el número de criterios que éstas exigen para poder incorporarse a dichas bases de datos.
En el caso de las revistas del área médica, las bases de datos a las que deben pertenecer, son las que aplican los indicadores de calidad más exigentes.
Hi,
An indexed journal is one that is indexed in various databases, depending on the discipline. There are databases that index journals from various disciplines, such as the citation index, and there are more specialized index such as index medicus that index mainly journals in medicine.
Dr Sudhakar probably you did not read my answer. What Dr Gordon has mentioned as Index medicus is pubmed. It was its old name when it was published as printed version. Now online database is PUBMRD.
Indexed journal is the place that you can publish your papers with a high credit for academicians to get promotion.
Indexed journals have better points for promotion.
Indexed journals make your work read by greater groups and get more citation.
See this on-line course please: > http://www.contentmind.com.br/cursos/fontes_indexacao_periodicos/
http://www.contentmind.com.br/cursos/fontes_indexacao_periodicos/
Hello, Sudhakar.
I've been a medical librarian for 35+ years and I've often seen this as point of confusion as online databases have proliferated.
It depends on how you define "indexing." Many use the term somewhat loosely to mean that a journal title or article appears in a printed "index" or online database, such as the old Index Medicus (print), PubMed, Web of Science, etc. As a librarian, I prefer to use a more narrow definition. At the article level I consider an individual item to be "indexed" when it has had subject terms added from a structured controlled vocabulary such as the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used in Medline, or Emtree in Embase.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine makes that distinction in the PubMed and Medline databases. Medline is that portion of PubMed in which the articles have had MeSH terms added. An article can appear PubMed but not be "indexed" in Medline. If you look at the journal record for the journal "Annals of Internal Medicine" (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/372351), for instance, you will see the phrase "Currently indexed for MEDLINE." However, if you look at the record for the "Annals of gastroenterology" (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101121847) you will see that it appears in "PubMed: v24, 2011-" and PMC (PubMed Central), but is "Not currently indexed for MEDLINE."
As a side note, I have noticed that many so-called "predatory publishers" use the term "indexed" very loosely. They sometimes proudly announce that their articles are indexed in Google Scholar or even Research Gate :-) neither of which are what I would consider to be indexes. In my opinion, the fact that an article or journal appears in an online database does not automatically mean that it is "indexed."
Does this answer your question?
Dear Sudhakar Pemminati,
I think this webpage could answer you Q:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354504/
Indexed Journal also provide the bibliometric information and Impact factor of persons and Journals. Pubmed is just an indexing service.
An indexed journal means that the journal has gone through and passed a review process of certain requirements done by a journal indexer. Basically, every institution can be an indexer but in the academic world, an indexer should be one who is trusted and reputable in doing such a job. ISI and Scopus are two main indexers for academic journals. An indexed journal is not necessarily will have a better quality than a non-indexed journal. This is because to be indexed, in most cases, a journal needs to apply and undergo a long and tight process of which most of established journals refused to take the process. Hence, an indexed journal is a journal that has proven (at least to the indexer) that it has well documented process in publishing papers.
Thank you Dr. Suabhan,
Unfortunately most of of the online journal are SCOPUS indexed, They are publishing any material without quality/ novelty and without review process.
Dear Dr. Sudhakar,
Generally I agree that an indexed journal is not a guaranteed venue for high quality publications. Out there, many non-indexed journals are much better than indexed journals. This is simply because indexers will evaluate the journal based on the documents submitted or available to them. Mostly, the evaluation happens one shot at a time or if it has to be repeated, it will be done after one year or two years. Many journals take advantage of this process. With a huge demand from researchers to publish their research findings in indexed journals, we observe that many journal editors have commercialized their journals for many reasons and unfortunately, many of them have abused the scientific or scholarly processes. We used to have in a journal 4-5 papers for each issue few years ago, but recently, it is easy to find a journal with a bulk papers (300-400 papers) in one issue. I am not saying this to all journals, but there are a pretty number of journals have practiced this.
Scopus is taking steps to remove the low quality journals.
It is difficult now to get journals to be indexed in Scopus
Thanks Muhammad Subhan for the excellent piece of information.
Thank you all for answering here.. Its such a great knowledge about the topic.
If you are talking about WUR, indexing a journal means you must indexed in CA WoS and/or Scopus with OA
YUP, it is. However, THE WUR doesn't count it coz PubMed is NON- WoS indexed. QS WUR also does NOT include PubMed since it is NOT a SCOPUS indexed journal
Sudhakar Pemminati , indexation actually gives you an information/idea about the credibility and quality of a journal.
It's all the "money game" that journals/publishers are playing with when comes to indexing & abstracting
Indexation gives credibility to journal and being used across world for assessment of credibility of publication.
Indexation provide the recognition to the journal about its authenticity in terms of its originality of content as well as about its editorial board and genuine publisher . There are different indexing agencies though few are very elite like Pubmed, Scopus, Index medicus, Copernicus etc. We can choose the journal according to our priority and its impact on scientific society.
To increase the visibility , availability and readership journals mist be indexed.
An indexed peer-reviewed journal has the capacity to attract credible authors because renowned professional authors would not want to waste their pen on journals with zero or little impact factor
The most reliable journals are those that have been indexed in ISI and/or Scopus (Q1, Q2). However, this doesn't mean that other journals are fake as many of them will probably be indexed in the Scopus and/or ISI in the future.
An indexed journal is the one that is indexed in various databases such as PubMed, Scopus Indexed Journals, Google Scholar, Elsevier, Willy. MIDLINE, Indexing will help your journal achieve its main purpose of being accessible to a wide group of researchers. and the more accessible journal having higher reputation with high quality of knowledge in the field of research you are interested in.
I think to be indexed is to have met the criteria of being a good journal (qualitatively and quantitatively) by a specific indexing body (web) like WOS, SCOPUS, Index Copernicus etc. It is to be listed in those webs
Hi,
An indexed journal is a journal that its issues are included in a database, mostly bibliographic ones. PubMed is an indexing service for journals in the medical profession, just as IEEE includes journals in computer science and mathematics, and Scopus and World of Science that are indexing journals from many disciplines. A journal can be indexed in several databases.
An index is a list of items pulled together for a purpose. Journal indexes (also called bibliographic indexes or bibliographic databases) are lists of journals, organized by discipline, subject, or type of publication.
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