Publication productivity and citation analysis of the Medical Journal of Malaysia: 2004 - 2008

TL;DR

This study analyzed publication productivity, citation patterns, and impact of the Medical Journal of Malaysia from 2004 to 2008, revealing author contributions, reference age, citation impact, and low self-citation rates.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the journal's publication and citation patterns, highlighting trends and impact over five years.

Findings

Authors mainly from hospitals, universities, clinics

References cited are 3 to 11 years old

Impact factor ranged from 0.378 to 0.616

Abstract

We analysed 580 articles (original articles only) published in Medical Journal of Malaysia between 2004 and 2008, the resources referenced by the articles and the citations and impact received. Our aim was to examine article and author productivity, the age of references used and impact of the journal. Publication data was obtained from MyAIS database and Google Scholar provided the citation data. From the 580 articles analyzed, contributors mainly come from the hospitals, universities and clinics. Contributions from foreign authors are low. The useful lives of references cited were between 3 to 11 years. ISI derived Impact factor for MJM ranged between 0.378 to 0.616. Journal self-citation is low. Out of the 580 sampled articles, 76.8% have been cited at least once over the 5 years and the ratio of total publications to citations is 1: 2.6.