Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science (한국문헌정보학회지)
- Volume 31 Issue 1
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- Pages.29-52
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- 1997
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- 1225-598X(pISSN)
A Study on the Use of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Awareness of SCI Source Journals by Faculty Members at Korean Medical Colleges
국내 의과대학 교수들의 Science Citation Index (SCI) 이용 실태 및 SCI 학술지에 대한 인지도(認知度) 조사 연구
Abstract
A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the use of SCI and awareness of SCI source journals by fatuity members at Korean medical colleges. 104 out of 180 faculty members randomly chosen from four prestigious medical colleges returned the questionnaires malled to them. Korean medical researchers rarely used SCI as their main source of research Information. They rather used the MEDLINE to seek the research information probably because they are easily available from their local libraries. Furthermore. many respondents mistakenly Identified 'SCI journals ranked by Impact factor' lists found In Journal Citation Reports (JCR) with the SCI Itself. That Is. In Korean medical research community. the virtue of SCI Is not as an Index but as a source of SCI Journal Impact factor Information. It Is because the Interest in impact factor Is highly associated with the pressure to publish In one of those SCI source Journals. The collected data shows that even the medical professors at these prestigious medical colleges suffer from the lack of knowledge and information about SCI. SCI source journals and their Impact factors. Nontheless, core journal titles of a medical specialty selected by Korean medical professors are mostly high-Impact Journals of Its field (1.e.. belong to the upper 1/3) zone ranked by Impact factor). Within each specialty. the Journal ranks assigned to the selected core Journals by the respondents agree with the ranks by SCI Impact factor to a great extent. That Is. the Korean medical scientists awareness on SCI Journals as defined in this study is in good standing. Therefore. a policy of a medical college to require medical professors to publish In SCI Journals to be promoted or a policy to evaluate a researcher's work by the fact that his research papers are published In SCI Journals can be positively pursued.
본 연구는 국내 의학 연구자들의 SCI 이용 실태와 SCI 학술지에 대한 인지도를 규명하기 위하여, 국내 4개의 유수한 의과대학에 재지 중인 교수 902명 중 무작위 추출한 180명
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