The 5/95 gap in the indexation of psychiatric journals of low- and middle-income countries.

JJ Mari; V Patel; C Kieling; D Razzouk; P Tyrer; H Herrman; (2010) The 5/95 gap in the indexation of psychiatric journals of low- and middle-income countries. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 121 (2). pp. 152-156. ISSN 0001-690X DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01476.x
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between science production and the indexation level of low- and middle-income countries (LAMIC) journals in international databases. METHOD: Indicators of productivity in research were based on the number of articles produced over the 1994-2004 period. A survey in both Medline and ISI/Thomson was conducted to identify journals according to their country of origin. A WPA Task Force designed a collaborative process to assess distribution and quality of non-indexed LAMIC journals. RESULTS: Twenty LAMIC were found to present more than 100 publications and a total of 222 indexed psychiatric journals were found, but only nine were from LAMIC. The Task Force received 26 questionnaires from editors of non-indexed journals, and concluded that five journals would meet criteria for indexation. CONCLUSION: Barriers to indexation of journals contribute to the difficulties in achieving fair representation in the main literature databases for the scientific production in these countries.


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