Go international a roadmap for egyptian journals

Going International:
A Roadmap for the
Egyptian Journals

Presentation Overview
1. Current Situation of the
Egyptian Journals 44
2. Going International: Three
Steps 65
3. ZJOHS- Case Study17
4. Two Int. Journals as
Examples 13

‫المجالت‬ ‫و‬ ‫الدوريات‬ ‫عدد‬
‫عالميا‬ ‫العلمية‬

www.ISSN.org
7
1.9 million,70,000 per year

The Global Authority for Serials
Ulrichsweb delivers the highest level
of serials coverage, across:
•383,000 serials,
•977 subject areas
•200 languages.
Records include TOCs, ISSN, title, publisher,
online availability, ….

https://www.worldcat.org/
• WorldCat connects you to the collections
and services of more than 10,000 libraries
worldwide
• Number of bibliographic records
• 397,546,551 (as of June 2017)

http://derp.sti.sci.eg/details.aspx?Id=1099

WHO - HINARI
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
12 www.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat

Launched in 2002
Managed by the World Health
Organization
HINARI provide s access up to 15,000
journals (in 30 different languages),
and up to 46,000 e-books
from 180 publisher
http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/journalList_print.php?all=true

International Egyptian Journals

‫المصرية‬ ‫العلمية‬ ‫الدوريات‬
‫الدولية‬(‫استطالعية‬ ‫دراسة‬)

Present Situation of Egyptian
Journals : a comparative study
1.NLM- PubMed (Free)
2.D.O.A.J (Free)
3.Elsevier- Scopus (Paid)
4.Thomson Reuters –WOS (P)

OA Journals In Developing
Countries
Several initiatives …include:
• Bioline International
• SciELO, Scientific Electronic
Library Online ( Latin America)
• AJOL, African Journals Online:
• AsiaJOL, Asia Journals Online:17

www.ISSN.org
18
1.9 million,70,000 per year

Number of Serials/Journals in the
ISSN database *
Number of Journals
With ISSN
Country of
Publisher
6.850Egypt1
6.176Turkey2
6.022Iran3
842Saudi Arabia4
-Israel5
* WWW. ISSN.org/ as of 20/02/201719

www.Pubmed.gov
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
mc/
20

PubMed
•Number of Titles as
of July 2017,
5,633 journals.
www.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat21

Number of Medical Journals indexed in MEDLINE
Ranked by the selected countries *
Number of indexed JournalsCountry of
Publisher
32Turkey1
13Egypt2
12Iran3
5Israel4
4Saudi Arabia5
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/ as of 20/02/201722

Egyptian Journals indexed in MEDLINE PubMed Database
2/2017*
Journal Title (N=13 out of 5,625 JOURNALS )Country of Publisher = Egypt
Arab J GastroenterolPan-Arab Ass
of Gastroenterology
1
Egypt J Immunol.Eg. Ass of Immunologists2
J Egypt Natl Canc InstNational Cancer Institute3
J Egypt Soc Parasitol.Egyptian Soc. of Parasitology4
East Mediterr Health JW.H.O5
1. Canadian jof gastroenterology & hepatology
2. Canadian respiratory journal
3. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol.
4. J Diabetes Res
5. J Immunol Res
6. J Pregnancy
7. Pulm Med
8. J Obes
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
Hindawi Pub. Corp
6
J Egypt Public Health AssocEgyptian PH Association
London : Lippincott W & WW?
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/23

http://www.scimagojr.com/countryran
k.php
24

Elsevier Scopus
• Now it include 22,878 Journals
• Elsevier provides web-based,
digital solutions
as ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsev
ier Research Intelligence
and ClinicalKey — and
publishes over 2,000 journals,
including The Lancet and Cell

Number of Journals ( TA & OA) indexed in
Scopus® database
of the selected countries *
OA
journals
3,797
Indexed
Journals
(29,713)
Country
of
Publisher
86180Turkey1
82139Iran2
4467Egypt3
227Israel4
211Saudi Arabia5 26

The Rank of the Selected Countries According to
The Number of Published Articles and H index (
1996-2015) *
H IndexWorld
Rank
Country
296 ~ II20Turkey1
199 ~ III22Iran2
536 ~ I23Israel3
184 ~ V42Egypt4
195 ~ IV44Saudi Arabia5
* www.Scimagojr.com/countryrank/ as of 20/02/2017
27

ISI Web of Science WOS
•About 12,000 journals
across all categories of
the natural and social
sciences covered in the
2016 JCR

Number of Journals indexed in
WOS
indexed JournalsCountry
50Turkey1
39Iran2
13Israel3
12Saudi Arabia4
4Egypt5
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_sciex.pdf as of 20/07/201730

https://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com
/
31

9,389 OA peer-
Reviewed Journals
2,437,271 OA
Articles
. listed in the DOAJ34

Number of Open Access Journals
Indexed in DOAJ *
Number of indexed
Journals
Country of
Publisher
597Egypt1
308Iran2
239Turkey3
15Saudi Arabia4
15 @Israel5
•WWW. DOAJ.org/ as of 20/02/2017
• @ http://UNESCO.org/goap
35

OA Journals In Developing
Countries
Several initiatives …include:
• Bioline
• SciELO,
• AJOL,
• AsiaJOL,
36

Bioline Journals -Iran
• IRAN
1. International Journal of Environment
Science and Technology
2. Iranian Journal of Pediatrics
3. Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine
37

38
OA Journals In Developing Countries
African Journals OnLine
(AJOL) is the world's
largest and pre-eminent
collection of peer-
reviewed, African-
published scholarly
journals.

AJOL hosts 521 Journals, including 215
Open Access Journals
• Algeria (5)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. (14)
• Ethiopia (30)
• Ghana (27)
• Kenya (29)
• Nigeria (221)
• South Africa (96)
• Tunisia (2)39
OA Journals In Developing Countries

Steps of Going International
Step 0 : Get ISSN for a peer reviewed journal, then
****************************************
1. Take the 1st Step ( Mandatory/Required ) :
Work within international standards ,
2. then go through the 2nd ( Recommended)
Step : Be internationally Indexed & visible,
3. and finally try hard the 3rd ( Optional ) Step:
get the prestige of: IF, H index , Citation Count,
Altmetrics …etc.,

Step 1
Roadmap for Egyptian
Journals

International
Publishing
Standards

International Publishing Standards
as recommended by the leading
publishing organizations
1.NLM- PubMed
2.Elsevier- Scopus
3.Thomson Reuters - WOS
4.D.O.A.J

Main International Guidelines
1. International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors . ICMJE
2. World Association of Medical Editors .WAME
3. Committee on Publication Ethics .COPE
4. EQUATOR Network
5. I. Stand. For Clinical Trial : WHO .

International Guidelines…1
1.International Committee
of Medical Journal
Editors

All
You
Need
!!!
www.icmje.org48
1

International Guidelines

Step 2
Roadmap for
Egyptian Journals

2nd Step of Going
International
( Recommended Step)
Be
internationally
Indexed & visible,

Select a journal from a catalogue
Index is a catalogue which contains some data
about a group of selected journals , also known
as :
–Databases
–Portals
–Directories
–Repositories
–Archiveswww.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat56

Journal’ Databases / Indexes
• Local vs. Global
• Free vs. Paid
• General vs. Specialized
• Commercial vs. Institutional
• Only Index vs. Abstracting & Citation.

Concepts Related to International
Journals
Indexation
Abstracting
Citation
Tracking

A- Indexing Service
• is a service that assigns
descriptors and other
access points to
documents

Indexation
• Nowadays more than 400
online services
provide abstracting and
indexing for the various
disciplines .

Indexed journals are
considered to be of
higher scientific quality
as compared to non-
indexed journals.
Indexation

Having a journal available in the leading
content repositories/indexes,
greatly increases exposure,
readership and citations.
Inclusion in these indexes can be seen
as a
‘badge of honor’ for a journal.
Indexation

Being indexed means that
• the journal has passed up several
stages of independent and objective,
manual review.
• the journal adheres to high levels of
quality of its publishing services
• the journal is a good and trusted
journal.
• Increase the visibility of your
publication(s)
• Give access to a global audience of
researchers and experts .

Examples of Journal Database
• EMBASE (Excerpta Medica : Elsevier,
• SCIE (Science Citation Index-Expanded): by TR.
• BIOSIS Citation Index: by Thomson R
• EBSCO Information Services:
• BioOne Abstracts and Indexes:
• Scopus By Elsevier
• DOAJ .
• PubMed NLMwww.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat64

• Genamics Journal Seek,
• Hinari,
• Index Copernicus
• Open J Gate,
• Pro Quest,
• SCOLOAR
65

Commonly Described indexation
Services
1.ISI -WOS
2.PubMed
3.Scopus

B- Abstracting Service
• Service that provides
abstracts of publications,
often on a subject or
group of related subjects.

C- CITATION
• Is a kind of bibliographic
database, allowing the
user to easily establish
which later documents
cite which earlier
documents.

Types Citation Indexes
CI by subscription
• WOS by Clarivate Analytics .
• Scopus by Elsevier,.
Free available C.I.
• CiteSeer ,
• Google Scholar

Journal Evaluation
for Indexation

A. Thomson Reuters - WOS
B. Elsevier- Scopus
C. NLM- PubMed
Journal Evaluation for
Indexation By:

Each year, the Editorial staff
reviews over 3,500 journal
titles for inclusion .Only
around 10% of these journals
are accepted for coverage

timeliness
• all issues be received/
posted in a timely
manner.

1. Basic publishing standards
2. Editorial content
3. International focus
4. Citation Analysis

1-BASIC PUBLISHING STANDARDS
• Peer Review
• Ethical Publishing Practices
• Timeliness
• International Editorial Conventions
• Full Text English
• References in the Roman alphabet.

2- EDITORIAL CONTENT
• Our editors determine if the
content of a journal under
evaluation will enrich the
database or if the topic is
already adequately addressed
in existing coverage.

3-INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
• Editors look for international diversity
among the journal’s contributing
authors, editors, and editorial
advisory board members at a level that is
appropriate for the journal’s target
audience.
•

3-INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
• If the journal’s content is aimed at
an international audience then we expect to
find an internationally diverse group of
authors, editors and editorial advisory board
members contributing to it.
•

3- INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
• We are also interested in
excellent regional Journals.
Regional journals often target a
local, rather than an international,
audience requiring less emphasis
on extensive international
diversity.

Journal selection criteria
Journal Editorial Policy
• Credible editorial policy
• Type of peer review
• Diversity in geographical distribution of
editors
• Diversity in geographical distribution of
authors

Content
• Academic contribution to the field
• Clarity of abstracts
• Quality of and conformity to the stated aims
and scope of the journal
• Readability of articles

Journal Standing
• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus
• Editor reputation

Publishing Regularity
• No delays or interruptions in the publication
schedule

Online Availability
• Full journal content available online
• English language journal home page available
• Quality of journal home page

Publication Ethics and
Publication Malpractice
Statements

http://suggestor.step.scopus.com/sugg
estTitle/step1.cfm
• Titles will only be considered for evaluation if they
meet the following minimum criteria:
• ►The title should publish peer reviewed content.
►The title should be published on a regular basis (i.e.
have an ISSN that has been confirmed by the ISSN
International Centre).
►The title should have English language abstracts
and article titles.
►The title should have references in Roman script.
►The title should have a publication ethics and
publication malpractice statement.

• The selection committee meets three
times a year, in February, June, and
October. Approximately 180 journals are
examined at each meeting.
Approximately 12-15% of the journals
reviewed are recommended for
inclusion in MEDLINE.
PubMed Selection Committee

PubMed Selection Criteria
• Journals will generally not be
selected for indexing if the
contents are subjects already well
represented in MEDLINE or that
are being published for a local
audience

1.Critical Elements
Scope and coverage:
Quality of content:
2.Quality of editorial work:
3.Production quality: .
4.Audience:

1- Critical Elements
• Scope and coverage:
• Quality of content:
• Scientific merit of a journal's content
• The validity, importance, originality,
and contribution to the coverage of
the field of the overall contents of
each title

2- Quality of editorial work:
information about the methods of
selecting articles,
especially on the explicit process of
external peer review;
statements indicating adherence to
ethical guidelines;
evidence that authors have disclosed
financial conflicts of interest;

timely correction of errata;
explicit responsible retractions as
appropriate;
and opportunity for comments and
dissenting opinion.
Sponsorship by national or international
professional societies may be considered.

• Additional factors that are considered include
the publisher and/or sponsoring organization’s
history and corporate structure, longevity, and
record of performance regarding such issues
as: quality of publications; experience in
scholarly publishing; involvement with the
scientific community

• disclosure of and adherence to print and
online publication standards and business
practices (e.g., advertising standards, ethical
guidelines, and conflict of interest
disclosures); and promotion of editorial
integrity and independence.

•3-Production quality: Quality of
the layout, printing, graphics,
• journals of archival importance should be
printed on acid-free paper.
•4- Audience:MEDLINE is intended
primarily for those in the health professions:
researchers, practitioners, educators,
administrators, and students.

•Optional: Impact
factor adds a great prestige to the
journal.
• Note that Impact factors are
calculated yearly for those journals
that are indexed in the Journal
Citation Reports.www.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat102
International Journal

DOAJ & IF !!!!
• DOAJ does not believe in the value of IF.
• There is only one official IF that is generated
by Thomson Reuters- a profit-making Org.
• This runs against the ethics and principles of
open access
• Displaying impact factors on a home page is
strongly discouraged
• DOAJ perceives this as an attempt to lure
authors in a dishonest way.

Types of Journals
• Institutional Journals
• National / regional Journals
• International Journals

1-Institutional Journals
Belong to and started by an institute
Normally publish papers from the institute faculty
- Circulation is normally within the institute and
country
Not indexed - No adherence to Int. Pub. Standard
Editor - normally belong to that institute
Peer Review – may be implemented

International Journal
• Affiliation…………………………..
• Editors……………………………..
• Editorial Policy………………….
• Audience & Authors……………
• Peer- Review …………………….
• Distribution ………………………
• Availability………………………..
• Indexation………………………..
• Prestige…………………………….www.Slideshare.net/AhmedRefat107

https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/journal/issue?issueId=all&journ
alId=37565

29 Records from ZJOHS
at WorldCat

•
1. Index Copernicus ( ICI 4.78 2009) …. I & A
2. African J Online AJO……………….. I & A
3. Socolar …………………………………… I & A
………………………………………………………………………..………………….
1. Genamics JournalSeek – ( 40361 titles. )
2. Open Science Directory ( > 13000 Jurnals )
3. EBSCO
4. ICAAP
5. SafetyLit (WHO & San Diego State University )
6. Ulrichsweb
7. Proquest
8. eJournal – University of Queensland , Australia
9. Google Scholar
10. Open Science Directory
11. Science Seek Sciseek

•Title: Zagazig Journal of Occupational Health and Safety
ISSN / E-ISSN: 1687-8671 /
Publisher: Zagazig University
Dear Sir,
The title mentioned above has been evaluated for inclusion in Scopus by the Content Selection &
Advisory Board (CSAB). The review of this title is now complete and the CSAB has advised that the
title has been rejected and will not be included in Scopus at the present time. For your
information, the reviewer comments are copied below:
Thank you for submitting your journal to SCOPUS inclusion . There are a number of issues that you
need to consider to be included in this international database - which you need to address if that
is a goal for the future. At present the journal appears to publish mainly papers from the
University staff members and the editorial board members are also the same. None of the editors
appear to have published in papers which have citations -all factors essential to demonstrate
international scholarly community membership and a strong evidence based quality culture. There
is a need to include some kind of Publisher Ethics statement as the norm for the future as well.
Author guidelines were helpful and clear but a worrying lack of papers included in the 2 years of
issues to date .Consider also the peer review system .
If in the future these comments are addressed, you may decide to submit a new application at any
time after the following date: March 2014.
Yours sincerely,
The Scopus Team

•At present the journal
appears to publish
mainly papers from the
University staff
members

•and the editorial board
members are also the
same.

• None of the editors appear to
have published in papers which
have citations -all factors essential
to demonstrate international
scholarly community membership
and a strong evidence based
quality culture.

•There is a need to include
some kind of Publisher
Ethics statement as the
norm for the future as
well.

• Author guidelines were helpful
and clear but a worrying lack of
papers included in the 2 years of
issues to date .
• Consider also the peer review
system .

International Journals
Two Examples……………

visibility
• High visibility: indexed by the Science
Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science),
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of
Science), MEDLINE (PubMed) and other
databases. Full-text available in PubMed
Central.

affiliation

indexation

Journal Ranking/Impact Factor
• Impact Factor: 4.465
© 2016 Journal Citation Reports®,
Thomson Reuters
• Ranking 16 out of 151
Medicine, General and Internal category
• Ranking 14 out of 171
Public, Environmental and Occupational
Health category

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