ENEO-UNAM’S Enfermería Universitaria Journal impact factor analysis 2011

Abstract

The aim of this research was to address the impact factor of the ENEO’s Enfermería Universitaria Journal during the year 2011, as part of its internal assessment process. Theoretical framework: The Impact Factor of journals is the most widely use index to estimate the average number of citations and works involved. Publishing in journals with a high Impact Factor is considered, in various contexts, a quality criterion since it is assumed that an article published in a determined journal will receive the same average number of citations as the journal itself. Methodology: This is a quantitative, not experimental, longitudinal, retrospective, descriptive, and diagnostic study. The population is made of 47 original and revision articles published in the journal during the years 2009 to 2010. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to study the citation average numbers as well as the Impact Factor. Data collection was accomplished through a standardized manual revision of all published articles. Results: During the three years studied, 13 issues with 34 research and 13 revision articles were published, 47 articles had eight citations between 2009 and 2010, yielding impact factors of 0.1702 in 2011. Conclusions: The Journal’s Impact Factor has had a steady growth; however it is necessary to increment it even more, in order to emphasize importance of the journal’s research groups works.