RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY IN PAKISTAN HEART JOURNAL FROM 2005 TO 2018: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

Abstract

Objective: To describe bibliometric study of scholarly literature published inPakistan Heart Journal covering period from 2005 to 2018 and to explorepublication trends.

Methodology: This quantitative study applied bibliometric methods to analyzeoriginal articles, authorship pattern, citations, contributions from differentregions and other relevant parameters of Pakistan Heart Journal covering periodfrom January 2005 to December 2018. The data was collected fromPostgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Library Hayatabad Peshawar and officialwebsite of PHJ.

Results: The study reveals that number of articles published in issues of thejournal per year ranged from 09 to 57. Cardiology is main subject area covered inthe articles with stable Ischemic heart disease as leading topic (15.46%)followed by Preventive cardiology (14.40%), Interventional cardiology, Heartfailure and Acute Coronary Syndrome. Articles with three authors were more innumbers (23.30%). Journal (95.53%) proved to be the more cited source ofinformation. Variation was found in the number of references cited in each article(40.05%) (153) articles had 11-20 references. Article's length was analyzed andit was revealed that a majority (30.22%) of articles comprised of five pages. Inregards to productivity, more authors belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwaregion(40.96%). Number of articles submitted by foreign authors has shown asteady increase reflecting international acceptance and recognition.

Conclusion: Pakistan Heart Journal is more than fifty years old journal withgradual increase in number of articles in the last seven years. This is specialtyorientatedjournal about heart diseases, larger number of articles were onischemic heart disease followed by preventive cardiology, interventionalcardiology and heart failure.