Assessment of knowledge regarding Scientometric among health care professionals: an observational study

Abstract

Aim: To assess the knowledge of publication criteria among health care professionals and objected to know the knowledge about citation index, H index about publication.

Materials and Methods: This is questionnaire  based assessment study was carried out in the Department of Pharmacology at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India from july 2019 to march 2020. After taking oral consent of 80 health care professionals who are willing to participate were given with validated questionnaire. The opinion generated for each question was expressed in percentage of the study group and results were analyzed. Results: Out of 80 participants, 68.75.3% of them were attended training programme. 71.25% were conducting language check before submission. 57.5% knew what is COPE – Committee on Publication ethics and were following it. 66.25% knew that their paper will undergo Editorial – Peer review – Technical – Linguistic check. 60% knew about SCI – Science Citation Index and 42.5% of them were selecting the journals based on impact factor. Conclusion: Every investigator must be made aware of citation index, impact factor and H index before writing/submitting their article for publication to maintain the quality of their publications.

Keywords: Scientometric, Impact factor, H index, Citation index, Health care professionals