A Survey on Biomedical Science Journals for Implementation of the National Bibliography

Cho, Yoonhee; Kim, Hoyong; Jeon, Usang

doi:10.69528/jkmla.2014.41.1.12

J Korean Med Libr Assoc 2014; 41(1):12-19

pISSN: 2383-8809

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69528/jkmla.2014.41.1.12

Article

국가서지 구축을 위한 의과학 학술지 현황 조사

조윤희¹^,^*, 김호용¹, 전우상¹

A Survey on Biomedical Science Journals for Implementation of the National Bibliography

Yoonhee Cho¹^,^*, Hoyong Kim¹, Usang Jeon¹

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¹질병관리본부 국립보건연구원 생명의과학센터 의과학지식관리과

¹Division of Medical Science Knowledge Management, Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Cheongju, Korea

^*Corresponding author : Yoonhee Cho, Division of Medical Science Knowledge Management, Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 187, Osongsaengmyeong 2-ro, Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju 361-951, Korea, Tel: 82-43-249-3023, Fax: 82-43-249-3034, E-mail: yhcho519@korea.kr

ⓒ Copyright 2014 The Korean Medical Library Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Oct 15, 2014; Revised: Nov 20, 2014; Accepted: Dec 16, 2014

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Abatract

Purpose:

To investigate the status of all the biomedical science journals published during last 66 years from Journal of Chosun Medical Association 1948 to Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2014 in Republic of Korea.

Methods:

List up by comparing the titles of the enlisted journals and remove the ceased journals in the following databases: National Research Foundation of Korea’s Korea Citation Index (KCI), Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors’ KoreaMed, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies’ NEST in biomedical and pharmaceutical area, and Medical Research Information Center’s KMBase. Out of 1,105 journals published during last 66 years in Republic of Korea, 620 journals currently publishing were analyzed.

Results:

We report status of journal publication by subject, language, frequency, international citation index database enlistment. We have classified and characterized the publication status and distribution trend into three phases: forming, growing and mature phase.

Conclusion:

Based on the results, we propose a plan to expand the international distribution of biomedical science journals published in Republic of Korea. We suggest that the national bibliography for the total of 620 journals including abstracts should be made.

Keywords: National Bibliography; Bibliometrics; Biomedical Research; Research Report; Republic of Korea

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