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Search terms:
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<label class="action-panel-label">
Email:
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Frequency:
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Which day?
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Which day?
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Send at most:
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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<button class="action-panel-submit"
type="submit"
data-loading-label="Sending..."
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data-ga-action="citation_manager"
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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<h2 class="action-panel-heading">
Your RSS Feed
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<button class="action-panel-submit"
type="submit"
data-loading-label="Creating..."
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
data-ga-label="save">
Create RSS
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ref="linksrc=close_rss_panel"
aria-controls="rss-action-panel"
aria-expanded="false"
data-ga-category="save_share"
data-ga-action="alert"
data-ga-label="cancel">
Cancel
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data-ga-category="save_share"
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Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) is often used to evaluate the relative reputation and quality of academic journals in their respective fields, and can greatly influence the quality and scope of subsequent manuscript submissions. Therefore, many if not all academic journals are interested in increasing their JIF<i>,</i> to improve their academic impact.
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To determine the importance of the integrity of the editorial and publication process in improving the academic influence of academic journals and the JIF of academic journals.
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In this paper, we describe our statistical analysis of bibliometric factors - including the 2021 JIFs released in the <i>Journal Citation Report™</i> 2022, discipline rankings, received and published articles in 2019-2021, and webpage visits and downloads - for seven journals published by Baishideng Publishing Group (Baishideng) and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded™; ultimately, we introduce and discuss the editing and publishing processes of Baishideng's journals in their entirety, as they form the basis for our objective of safeguarding and bolstering integrity in academic publication.
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For the seven journals assessed, their 2021 JIFs were basically unchanged from 2020, with the current metric ranging from 5.374 for <i>World Journal of Gastroenterology</i> (<i>WJG</i>) to 1.534 for <i>World Journal of Clinical Cases</i> (<i>WJCC</i>). Further assessments of the journals' bibliometrics from 2019 to 2020, showed that <i>World Journal of Stem Cells</i> has the highest self-citation rate (1.43%) and <i>World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery</i> has the lowest (0.21%). Additionally, the total 3012 articles published during this period were cited by more than 20000 articles in approximately 8000 academic journals. Of note, the 1102 articles published in <i>WJG</i> were cited by articles in 3059 journals, among which 171 journals have a JIF of &gt; 10, including internationally renowned academic journals such as <i>CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians</i> (2021 JIF 286.130, record count: 1)<i>, Lancet</i> (2021 JIF 202.731, record count: 4)<i>, Nature Reviews Immunology</i> (2021 JIF 108.555, record count: 2), <i>Nature Reviews Gastroenterology &amp; Hepatology</i> (2021 JIF 73.082, record count: 9), <i>Lancet Gastroenterology &amp; Hepatology</i> (2021 JIF 45.042, record count: 8), <i>Gastroenterology</i> (2021 JIF 33.883, record count: 19), and <i>Gut</i> (2021 JIF 31.793, record count: 21). This suggests that Baishideng's journals have been widely recognized for their academic quality. In the <i>Reference Citation Analysis</i> (<i>RCA</i>) database, all seven Baishideng-published journals obtained a 2022 <i>Journal Article Influence Index</i> (<i>JAII</i>). For example, <i>WJG</i> has a 2022 <i>JAII</i> of 22.048, ranking 18<sup>th</sup> out of 102 journals in the field of gastroenterology &amp; hepatology in the <i>RCA</i>, with 469909 total citations (6/102) and 21313 total articles (5/102). The numbers of manuscripts received and published in 2021 were both higher than those in 2019-2020. For example, <i>WJCC</i> received a total of 3650 manuscripts in 2021, which is 91.1% higher than those in 2019-2020 (average: 1910 papers/year). In 2021, <i>WJCC</i> published 1296 articles, representing an increase of 105.1% compared to those in 2019-2020 (average: 632 articles/year). The numbers of webpage visits and downloads received by the seven journals have increased year by year. For example, the number of total visits received by <i>WJG</i> in 2019-2021 was 1974052 in 2019, 2317835 in 2020 (increased by 17.4% compared with that in 2019), and 2652555 in 2021 (increased by 4.4% compared with that in 2020). The visitors were from more than 220 countries and regions worldwide, such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. Open access (OA) plays a vital role in improving the quality, efficiency, transparency, and integrity of academic journal publishing. From 2019 to 2021, a total of 5543 OA articles were published in the seven journals, of which 2083 (37.6%) were invited and published free-of-charge. During the same period, 1683 articles were published in <i>WJG</i>, and the authors were from more than 70 countries and regions. For the total 5543 articles published in the seven journals from 2019 to 2021, 3903 article quality tracking reports were received after the online publication of these articles. The quality of the articles was further evaluated through the Baishideng's article quality and author evaluation tracking system, with 4655 articles (84.0%) having received author evaluation and feedback, which contributes to tracking metrics for authors' satisfaction with the collective publication processes. From March 25, 2021 to June 28, 2022, the seven journals received a total of 424 reader evaluations and 229 letters from readers; this subsequent reader engagement demonstrates that the popularity of the published articles and the volume of their readership audience were improved through the reader evaluation system.
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Ultimately, the findings from our bibliometric assessments indicate that establishing, promoting and actively practicing processes that safeguard and bolster the integrity of the editing and publication process also help to improve the academic influence of academic journals, which itself is the cornerstone for improving JIF.
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Academic influence; Academic journal; Editing process; Journal Impact Factor; Language polishing; Open access; Peer review; Publishing process.
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><b> The 2021 Journal Impact Factor and category rank of <i>World Journal of Stem Cells</i>.</b>
<i> JCR</i>: <i>Journal Citation Report</i>™; SCIE: Science Citation Index Expanded™.</div>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents">Country sources and number of articles published in <i>World Journal of Stem Cells</i> in 2019-2020.</div>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><b>Country sources and number of articles published in <i>World Journal of Stem Cells </i>in 2021. </b>
<i>WJSC</i>:<i> World Journal of Stem Cells.</i></div>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><b> The 2021 Journal Impact Factor and category rank of <i>World Journal of Diabetes</i>.</b>
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<div class="figure-caption-contents"><b> The 2021 Journal Impact Factor and category rank of<i> World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology</i>.</b>
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