ASSESSING THE RATE OF VISIBILITY OF IRANIAN NURSING JOURNALS ARTICLES IN SCOPUS

This article is based on bibliometric features exploring the rate of visibility of 32 Iranian Nursing Journals articles In Scopus. The research data were extracted from Scopus database based on advanced search features and then transferred to Microsoft Excel for further data manipulation. The result showed that of 990 times of citation, Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research with 358 times of citation took the first place, followed by Iranian Journal of Nursing Research (IJNR) and Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty each with 94 and 86 times of citation, respectively. Unfortunately 9 of 32 journals under investigation did not received any citation yet and 2 of 32 journals just received 1 citation.
Hayat with 77, Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with 54 and International Journal of Pediatrics with 34 times of citation are the sources that much cited Iranian nursing journals, respectively.
Except Iranian researchers which have been cited Iranian nursing articles 557 times, researchers of other countries that are cited Iranian nursing papers are as follow: United States 72, Australia 38, United Kingdom 36, Turkey 25, South Korea 22 and China 18. Researchers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 125, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences with 73, Iran University of Medical Sciences with 70, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences with 43 and Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with 42 times of citation to articles published in the Iranians nursing journals were universities that their researchers are benefited from the internal publications. 22 percent of citation to Iranian nursing journals articles were foreign publications. In order to boost the rate of visibility some practical recommendations were given.