Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia (Dec 2014)

Dominance of foreign citations in Brazilian orthopedics journals,

  • Renan Kleber Costa Teixeira,
  • Vitor Nagai Yamaki,
  • Rita de Cássia Rodrigues Rosa,
  • Rui Sergio Monteiro de Barros,
  • Nara Macedo Botelho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rboe.2014.01.015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 49, no. 6
pp. 668 – 670

Abstract

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Objective:To evaluate whether there is any preference for citing journals from other countries to the detriment of Brazilian journals, in three Brazilian orthopedics journals.Methods:All the References of articles published in 2011 by the journals Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, Coluna/Columna and Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia were evaluated to as certain how many of these came from Brazilian journals and how many from foreign journals.Results:3813 References distributed among 187 articles were analyzed. Out of this total, 306 (8.02%) were from Brazilian journals. There was no difference between the three journals analyzed. There were 76 articles (40.64%) without any citations of articles in Brazilian journals and only two articles (1%) cited more Brazilian articles than articles published elsewhere.Conclusion:There is a need for Brazilian researchers to cite articles from Brazilian journals more often.

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