QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF THE JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE DURING 20th PUBLICATION YEAR.

Asirdizer M, Yavuz MS, Zeyfeoglu Y.

ABSTRACT

The first publication of The Journal of Forensic Medicine (as called as Adli Tıp Dergisi in Turkish) was realized in 1985. Although it could not publish in 1998 and 1999 years, its publication was again begun in 2000 and it is the most rooted scientific publication of forensic medicine community in Turkey which accessed to 20th publication year in 2006. It acted as an intermediary role for the sharing of knowledge of many scientists and productions of their studies in the forensic medicine area. Additionally, it had been a vanguard for the contribution of foreign scientists to science area of our country.

The aim of this study, the defining of necessaries for better introduction of Journal of Forensic Medicine after examination of its publication profile until nowadays and the submitting suggestions for its taking part in national and international citation indexes.

For this aim, all articles which published in Journal Forensic Medicine during 20 years were reviewed, citations which attributed it were searched, and types of article, the number and specialization of the internationally addressed articles, the disturbance of articles to years, the number and rates of citations attributed to The Journal of Forensic Medicine from national or international journals and other specializations of articles were qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated. In this study, Clinical Forensic Medicine which unified with Journal of Forensic Medicine after separate publication in 2001 and 2002 years were also evaluated according to criteria which stated above. In conclusion, the suggestions about progression of The Journal of Forensic Medicine in next years were submitted.

Keywords: Journal of Forensic Medicine, Clinical forensic Medicine, Article, Citation, Citation indexes.