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According to Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics (1), the impact factor (IF) of Balkan Medical Journal arose 1.083 in 2016, which reflects 114% increase compared to the last year.This impressive progress has also changed the place from category Q4 to Q3, made Balkan Medical Journal ranked 94 th among 154 general medical journals in globe and the most prestigious one in Turkey (Table 1).This increase in IF, motivated us to make a brief analysis about the citations of the journal and its sources.We have observed that, 61% of all citations (which our journal had been referred since its integration to SCI-Expanded) appeared between January 2016 and May 2017.This analysis helped us to focus on and evaluate sources of citations.Between January 2016 and May 3, 2017, Balkan Medical Journal had been cited 338 times by 275 journals from 32 countries (2).During this period, types of cited-articles published in the journal are shown in Figure 1.Among these; 70% are original articles, 19% are invited reviews, 7% are letters, 3% are editorial materials and remaining 1% are the others.As a summary, 89% of cited-articles consist of original articles and invited reviews.Another topic we wonder is the IFs of journals which Balkan Medical Journal is cited.Among 275, 229 of IFs obtained from Web of Science database which was released in 2015 (2).The average IF in 2015 of these journals is 2.0±1.8(range: 0.09-21.3).While 34.9% of the journals in which Balkan Medical Journal is cited have an IF that varies between 1-1.9, the percentage of the journals which have an IF of ≥2 is 40,7% (Figure 2).
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