В търсене на български списания с импакт фактор в платформата Web of Science
Looking for Bulgarian Journals with Impact Factor in Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports

Summary/Abstract: The research paper outlines one of the major problems facing scholarly communications these days – counting citations of authors' research results (trough articles, monographs, papers, dissertations, projects) and the impact of their publications on national and international level. The author focuses at the leading goal of publishers, researchers and academic institutions – to obtain and increase the journals’ Impact Factor as “a sign of quality” of their intellectual products and analyses the difficulties faced by Bulgarian scientist to publish in Bulgarian Journals with Impact Factor (IF) based on a detailed information survey. The results of the study show that only 64% of Bulgarian journals with IF, identified in citation-based research analytics tool InCites Journal Citation Reports Journal at Web of Science platform can be clearly identified as “Bulgarian journals”. And this provoked the following research question: “Which journals could be classified as “Bulgarian” and why the other 36% of Bulgarian journals with Impact Factor have problems with their national affiliation recognition? The article is a result of the project “Design and Development of a Prototype of the Information System “Citation Index of Publications by Bulgarian Authors (Social Sciences), which reflects the current status of the issue of citation tracking of Bulgarian authors in Bulgarian scientific literature as well the lack of such tool on national level for evaluation and analysis of publications based on scientometrics indicators.

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