International Scientific Periodicals Evaluation Description and Databases I-The Development of the Standards, Indicators and Factors


Abstract in English

The paper shows the reasons for the institutional evaluation of the international scientific periodicals. The evaluation factors, criteria, indicators and quality have been discussed. The development, cease and requirements of continuity, as well as contemporary realities are also presented. With some aspects of the characterization of the qualitative evaluation of journals such as refereed, prestigious, and authoritative, and review the features of the development of quantitative digital indicators of periodicals and its classification, and in particular those supporting factors, to evaluate the journals in terms of numbers, date of measurement, standards, tools, and databases, and citation frequency and measurable indicators. Impact factor and its measurable indicators such as the average impact factor, immediate indexing, and half-life citation are studied.

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Analysis Study of Chemical Periodicals –Some Factors, Standards & indicators, Y. Koudsi, R. Hallack, J. of Damascus University for Basic Science, vol. 22, N 1, p. 72, 2006
International CHEMICAL PERIODICALS - The Development of Standards and Indicators of Self and Establishment Data Base Descriptions, Y. Koudsi, R. Hallack , J. of Damascus University for Basic Science , vol. 24, N 1, p. 65- 99, 2008
International Chemical Periodicals, Part III: The Development of the Standards, Indicators, Factors of Archiving in Secondary Periodicals. The Databases of Chemical Indexing and Abstracting Services, Y. Koudsi, R. Hallack, J. of Damascus University for Basic Science, accepted & under publication, 2010

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