H5 - Index of Ibero-Latin American journals on Plastic Surgery and Burns

Dear Editor,

I read with interest the manuscript by Grassi Salles, which highlights the efforts made by the editorial staff of the Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery to improve the impact of this publication¹.

Scientometric provides an overview of status of scientific journals and their progress. The h5-index is one of the scientometric indicators made available by Google Scholar Metrics²,³,⁴,⁵.

The value of the h5 - index is based on median of papers published within the last 5 years in order to calculate the position of the journal This index constitutes the largest number h such that h articles published in 2012-2016 had at least h times citation each.

The h5 - index of Ibero-Latin American journals on plastic surgery and burns are summarized in Table 1.

Table 1
Rankings of Ibero-Latin American Journals on Plastic Surgery and Burn based on H5 - Index by Google Scholar Metrics. Period 2012 - 2016.

N.	Journal	H5	Median	Publication start year	Frequency	Country of publication
1	Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica	8	12	1986	Quartely	Brazil
2	Revista Brasileira de Queimaduras	6	10	2001	Quartely	Brazil
3	Cirugía Plástica Ibero-Latinoamericana	5	7	1974a	Quartely	Spain
4	Cirugía Plástica	2	2	1991	Three times/ year	Mexico
5	Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva	-	-	1989	Biannual	Colombia
6	Revista Argentina de Quemaduras	-	-	1983	Three times/ year	Argentina

• Source: Google Scholar Metrics.
• Accessed: May 25, 2017.
• ^a
  Merger from Revista Española de Cirugía Plástica (started in 1968).

The indicator is remarkable to Brazilian journals, mainly the Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery that occupies the first position among Ibero-Latin American journals on plastic surgery and burns.

• Institution: Hospital Universitario General Calixto García, Havana, Cuba.

REFERÊNCIAS

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  Grassi Salles A. Impact Factor of the Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery). Rev Bras Cir Plást. 2016;31(2):292.
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  Acosta-Batista C, Mullings-Pérez R. Medwave scientometric indicators in Scopus and future challenges. Medwave 2016;16(9):e6575. DOI: 10.5867/medwave.2016.09.6575 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2016.09.6575
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  Hirsch JE. An index to quantify an individual´s scientific research output. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005;102(46):16569-72. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102
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  Benet-Rodríguez M, Morejón-Giraldoni A. Posicionamiento de las revistas científicas de la salud en Cuba según el índice H5 obtenido del Google Scholar Metrics. Medisur [revista en Internet]. 2016 [cited 2017 May 25]; 14(2):[aprox. 8 p.]. Available from: http://www.medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/3254
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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  29 May 2023
• Date of issue
  2017

History

• Received
  11 July 2017
• Accepted
  07 Aug 2017