Medical Reference Services Quarterly

This highly acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal is an essential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians. For those professionals who provide reference and public services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings, Medical Reference Services Quarterly covers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health. This exciting and comprehensive resource regularly publishes brief practice-oriented articles relating to medical reference services, with an emphasis on user education, database searching, and electronic information. Two columns feature the Internet and informatics education. The journal extensively examines the areas of information management education, microcomputer applications to libraries, and end-user searching. Research articles in which practical application is analyzed and clearly presented are also included. Medical Reference Services Quarterly has explored such topics as: Use of the Internet for providing medical information- Utilization of biomedical databases- Administration and management of medical reference services- Continuing education of medical reference librarians and online search analysts- Clinical medical librarians- Marketing medical reference services- Staffing for the medical reference department- The informationist and medical reference librarians- User education in health sciences libraries- Legal aspects of medical reference- Virtual (chat) reference- Document delivery in health sciences libraries- Patient education- Ready reference in health sciences libraries- Collection management of medical reference electronic and print resources- PDAs and the medical library- Evidence-based medical librarianship- Use of blogs and RSS feeds by health sciences libraries

Category	Year	Quartile
Health Informatics	1999	Q3
Health Informatics	2000	Q2
Health Informatics	2001	Q3
Health Informatics	2002	Q3
Health Informatics	2003	Q2
Health Informatics	2004	Q4
Health Informatics	2005	Q2
Health Informatics	2006	Q3
Health Informatics	2007	Q3
Health Informatics	2008	Q3
Health Informatics	2009	Q3
Health Informatics	2010	Q2
Health Informatics	2011	Q2
Health Informatics	2012	Q2
Health Informatics	2013	Q2
Health Informatics	2014	Q2
Health Informatics	2015	Q2
Health Informatics	2016	Q3
Health Informatics	2017	Q2
Health Informatics	2018	Q2
Health Informatics	2019	Q2
Health Informatics	2020	Q3
Health Informatics	2021	Q3
Health Informatics	2022	Q1
Health Informatics	2023	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	1999	Q3
Library and Information Sciences	2000	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2001	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2002	Q3
Library and Information Sciences	2003	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2004	Q3
Library and Information Sciences	2005	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2006	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2007	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2008	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2009	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2010	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2011	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2012	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2013	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2014	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2015	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2016	Q1
Library and Information Sciences	2017	Q1
Library and Information Sciences	2018	Q1
Library and Information Sciences	2019	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2020	Q2
Library and Information Sciences	2021	Q1
Library and Information Sciences	2022	Q1
Library and Information Sciences	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.183
2000	0.333
2001	0.243
2002	0.238
2003	0.311
2004	0.253
2005	0.465
2006	0.315
2007	0.376
2008	0.401
2009	0.427
2010	0.630
2011	0.575
2012	0.499
2013	0.524
2014	0.523
2015	0.529
2016	0.496
2017	0.659
2018	0.528
2019	0.500
2020	0.430
2021	0.585
2022	1.067
2023	0.706

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	31
2000	34
2001	31
2002	32
2003	33
2004	32
2005	32
2006	40
2007	34
2008	33
2009	33
2010	35
2011	37
2012	38
2013	41
2014	44
2015	43
2016	44
2017	53
2018	45
2019	39
2020	39
2021	40
2022	37
2023	32

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.112
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.265
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	0.254
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	0.174
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	0.250
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.408
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.461
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.488
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.533
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.500
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.496
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.671
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	0.600
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	0.529
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	0.860
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	0.821
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	0.888
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	0.880
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	0.971
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.951
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	1.297
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	1.431
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	1.938
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	2.613
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	2.181
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.112
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.269
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.297
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.198
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	0.258
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.417
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.546
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.474
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.510
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.547
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.514
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	0.710
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	0.693
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	0.524
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	0.918
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	0.828
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	0.976
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	0.852
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	0.885
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.836
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	1.338
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	1.599
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	2.081
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	2.288
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	1.991
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.164
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.299
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.185
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	0.246
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.270
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.431
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.615
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.438
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.472
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.527
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	0.388
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	0.864
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	0.618
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	0.556
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	0.680
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	0.722
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	0.894
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	0.747
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	0.851
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.722
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	1.469
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	1.679
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	1.321
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	2.544
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	1.727

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	3
Self Cites	2000	5
Self Cites	2001	4
Self Cites	2002	4
Self Cites	2003	4
Self Cites	2004	2
Self Cites	2005	12
Self Cites	2006	3
Self Cites	2007	21
Self Cites	2008	12
Self Cites	2009	11
Self Cites	2010	23
Self Cites	2011	9
Self Cites	2012	9
Self Cites	2013	11
Self Cites	2014	7
Self Cites	2015	9
Self Cites	2016	9
Self Cites	2017	17
Self Cites	2018	10
Self Cites	2019	11
Self Cites	2020	8
Self Cites	2021	11
Self Cites	2022	36
Self Cites	2023	22
Total Cites	1999	13
Total Cites	2000	28
Total Cites	2001	30
Total Cites	2002	19
Total Cites	2003	25
Total Cites	2004	40
Total Cites	2005	53
Total Cites	2006	46
Total Cites	2007	53
Total Cites	2008	58
Total Cites	2009	55
Total Cites	2010	71
Total Cites	2011	70
Total Cites	2012	55
Total Cites	2013	101
Total Cites	2014	96
Total Cites	2015	120
Total Cites	2016	109
Total Cites	2017	116
Total Cites	2018	117
Total Cites	2019	190
Total Cites	2020	219
Total Cites	2021	256
Total Cites	2022	270
Total Cites	2023	231

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.086
External Cites per document	2000	0.221
External Cites per document	2001	0.257
External Cites per document	2002	0.156
External Cites per document	2003	0.216
External Cites per document	2004	0.396
External Cites per document	2005	0.423
External Cites per document	2006	0.443
External Cites per document	2007	0.308
External Cites per document	2008	0.434
External Cites per document	2009	0.411
External Cites per document	2010	0.480
External Cites per document	2011	0.604
External Cites per document	2012	0.438
External Cites per document	2013	0.818
External Cites per document	2014	0.767
External Cites per document	2015	0.902
External Cites per document	2016	0.781
External Cites per document	2017	0.756
External Cites per document	2018	0.764
External Cites per document	2019	1.261
External Cites per document	2020	1.540
External Cites per document	2021	1.992
External Cites per document	2022	1.983
External Cites per document	2023	1.802
Cites per document	1999	0.112
Cites per document	2000	0.269
Cites per document	2001	0.297
Cites per document	2002	0.198
Cites per document	2003	0.258
Cites per document	2004	0.417
Cites per document	2005	0.546
Cites per document	2006	0.474
Cites per document	2007	0.510
Cites per document	2008	0.547
Cites per document	2009	0.514
Cites per document	2010	0.710
Cites per document	2011	0.693
Cites per document	2012	0.524
Cites per document	2013	0.918
Cites per document	2014	0.828
Cites per document	2015	0.976
Cites per document	2016	0.852
Cites per document	2017	0.885
Cites per document	2018	0.836
Cites per document	2019	1.338
Cites per document	2020	1.599
Cites per document	2021	2.081
Cites per document	2022	2.288
Cites per document	2023	1.991

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	0.00
2000	0.00
2001	0.00
2002	0.00
2003	3.03
2004	0.00
2005	0.00
2006	0.00
2007	8.82
2008	6.06
2009	6.06
2010	2.86
2011	5.41
2012	0.00
2013	2.44
2014	0.00
2015	2.33
2016	0.00
2017	1.89
2018	0.00
2019	0.00
2020	0.00
2021	2.50
2022	2.70
2023	3.13

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	36
Non-citable documents	2000	28
Non-citable documents	2001	13
Non-citable documents	2002	10
Non-citable documents	2003	18
Non-citable documents	2004	11
Non-citable documents	2005	8
Non-citable documents	2006	0
Non-citable documents	2007	0
Non-citable documents	2008	0
Non-citable documents	2009	0
Non-citable documents	2010	0
Non-citable documents	2011	1
Non-citable documents	2012	1
Non-citable documents	2013	2
Non-citable documents	2014	1
Non-citable documents	2015	1
Non-citable documents	2016	0
Non-citable documents	2017	0
Non-citable documents	2018	0
Non-citable documents	2019	1
Non-citable documents	2020	3
Non-citable documents	2021	8
Non-citable documents	2022	15
Non-citable documents	2023	16
Citable documents	1999	80
Citable documents	2000	76
Citable documents	2001	88
Citable documents	2002	86
Citable documents	2003	79
Citable documents	2004	85
Citable documents	2005	89
Citable documents	2006	97
Citable documents	2007	104
Citable documents	2008	106
Citable documents	2009	107
Citable documents	2010	100
Citable documents	2011	100
Citable documents	2012	104
Citable documents	2013	108
Citable documents	2014	115
Citable documents	2015	122
Citable documents	2016	128
Citable documents	2017	131
Citable documents	2018	140
Citable documents	2019	141
Citable documents	2020	134
Citable documents	2021	115
Citable documents	2022	103
Citable documents	2023	100

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	105
Uncited documents	2000	84
Uncited documents	2001	81
Uncited documents	2002	79
Uncited documents	2003	79
Uncited documents	2004	68
Uncited documents	2005	65
Uncited documents	2006	64
Uncited documents	2007	67
Uncited documents	2008	72
Uncited documents	2009	69
Uncited documents	2010	57
Uncited documents	2011	56
Uncited documents	2012	69
Uncited documents	2013	54
Uncited documents	2014	59
Uncited documents	2015	67
Uncited documents	2016	76
Uncited documents	2017	76
Uncited documents	2018	80
Uncited documents	2019	85
Uncited documents	2020	81
Uncited documents	2021	64
Uncited documents	2022	46
Uncited documents	2023	51
Cited documents	1999	11
Cited documents	2000	20
Cited documents	2001	20
Cited documents	2002	17
Cited documents	2003	18
Cited documents	2004	28
Cited documents	2005	32
Cited documents	2006	33
Cited documents	2007	37
Cited documents	2008	34
Cited documents	2009	38
Cited documents	2010	43
Cited documents	2011	45
Cited documents	2012	36
Cited documents	2013	56
Cited documents	2014	57
Cited documents	2015	56
Cited documents	2016	52
Cited documents	2017	55
Cited documents	2018	60
Cited documents	2019	57
Cited documents	2020	56
Cited documents	2021	59
Cited documents	2022	72
Cited documents	2023	65

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