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Impact factor surge in Korean medical journals during the COVID-19 era: a bibliometric study
Chansu Park, Sejin Park, Hyeonseok Seo, Janghyeog Oh, Dongryeong Kim, Junha Kang, Hanul Kang, Hyunsung Kang, Yaechan Kim, Mi Ah Han
Sci Ed. 2024;11(1):55-61.   Published online December 18, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.320
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Purpose
The multiyear COVID-19 pandemic has affected the volume and speed of publications in scientific journals. This study evaluated trends in the impact measures of international medical journals published in Korea, including the journal impact factor (JIF).
Methods
We selected Science Citation Index Expanded journals with the country/region set to Korea and the academic category classified as “clinical medicine” in Journal Citation Reports. Trends in indicators such as the JIF and Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) were assessed for journals with JIF information from 2018 to 2022. Ratios and differences between the measures were calculated to determine the extent of the change.
Results
We identified 43 journals, and the average JIF of those journals increased from 2.33 in 2018 and 2.50 in 2019 to 3.45 in 2020 and 3.86 in 2021. Other measures, such as the 5-year JIF and JCI, steadily increased, and the proportion of gold open access journals also increased significantly. However, the JCI and Eigenfactor scores remained steady or showed relatively small increases. Furthermore, impact measures declined in 2022, including a JIF decrease to 3.55.
Conclusion
We presented trends in quantitative measurements for international medical journals in Korea, and found an overall increase. Journals need to maintain a rigorous publication process to improve the quality of their research and the research community needs to exercise caution when using quantitative measures to evaluate journals. Further research is required to examine the quantitative indicators of journals, including their publication policies, research topics, and long-term trends.

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  • Scientific Publication Speed of Korean Medical Journals during the COVID-19 Era
    Hyeonseok Seo, Yaechan Kim, Dongryeong Kim, Hanul Kang, Chansu Park, Sejin Park, Junha Kang, Janghyeog Oh, Hyunsung Kang, Mi Ah Han
    Healthcare Informatics Research.2024; 30(3): 277.     CrossRef
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Improving Journal Article Tag Suite for multilingual articles
Vincent Lizzi
Sci Ed. 2022;9(2):169-178.   Published online August 19, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.285
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The scenarios for journal articles that contain more than one language are no longer (and never really were) limited to having an article’s title, abstract, and keywords translated to additional languages. Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) currently has a variety of structures for tagging articles that are in multiple languages or have substantial amounts of content in more than one language. However, these structures are not all coherent and are not up to the tasks of handling some common use cases. A subcommittee of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) JATS Standing Committee (with participation from members of the Standards Tag Suite (STS) and Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) committees and some other invited experts) was formed, in 2021, with the goal of recommending changes to JATS to enable it to usefully encode multilingual articles. The subcommittee has recommended a set of changes that introduce new structures that can be available to JATS users who need them while minimizing the burden JATS users who rarely deal with multilingual content. Most of these changes are backward compatible with earlier versions of JATS. These changes are currently a work in progress and may become available in a future version of JATS. This paper presents a proposal for improving JATS to better support tagging multilingual articles with the hope of garnering feedback and suggestions from the JATS community.
Reviews
Adaptation of Journal Article Tag Suite XML for Japanese humanities papers
Hidehiko Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Nao Hattori, Satoshi Taga
Sci Ed. 2018;5(2):92-99.   Published online August 20, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.136
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Out of East Asian languages which do not use the Latin alphabet, Japanese is a very complicated writing system that uses “kanji,” which are ideograms, and “kana,” which are phonetic characters. Most of the Japanese papers published so far using Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) are science, technology, and medicine fields adapting horizontal writing systems, which are structurally consistent with English papers. Most of them only replace Latin letters with Japanese characters. In this presentation, we suggested method of presenting vertically oriented Japanese humanities articles in JATS XML. For vertical description of Chinese numeric, we would like to propose the introduction of an element which specifies description direction. Alternatively, could be used as a hidden command when creating a document. We propose the following notation in the part of the number that can be converted: 六五. Chinese numeric 六五 is a Arabic numeric 65. With this, it is shown that 六五 of Chinese numerals can be converted to 65 in Arabic numerals. For vertical text description with JATS, we would like to suggest adding @ writing-mode as an attribute to
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. Furthermore, note and references should be differentiated for example, between a and a in the future. As Kanji are ideograms, there are variations that cannot be expressed with UTF-8. If these difficult Kanji are included in the JATS text, it will be necessary to decide on their description method. For the propagation of use of JATS XML for non-Latin characters articles, the structure of the document for example, vertical description, and special presentation should be considered more widely.

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  • Reflections as 2020 comes to an end: the editing and educational environment during the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of Scopus and Web of Science in scholarly publishing, journal statistics, and appreciation to reviewers and volunteers
    Sun Huh
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Journal Article Tag Suite subset and Schematron: achieving the right balance
Alexander B. Schwarzman
Sci Ed. 2018;5(1):2-15.   Published online February 19, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.111
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Ensuring that published content adheres to the publisher’s business and style rules requires the implementation of quality-control solutions that encompass the entire enterprise, including vendors and in-house staff. The solutions must span the entire life cycle of the manuscript, from extensible markup language conversion to production to post-publication enhancements. Two techniques that may help in achieving this goal are developing Schematron and making a Journal Article Tag Suite subset. Both come with costs: Schematron change management requires development and maintenance of an extensive testbase; making a subset requires comprehensive content analysis and the knowledge of the publishing program’s direction. Achieving the right balance between the two techniques may reduce the costs associated with them.

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  • Position of Ultrasonography in the scholarly journal network based on bibliometrics and developmental strategies for it to become a top-tier journal
    Sun Huh
    Ultrasonography.2020; 39(3): 238.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions.2020; 17: 44.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
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    Sun Huh
    Journal of the Korean Medical Association.2018; 61(9): 524.     CrossRef
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Case Study
Creating Journal Article Tag Suite extensible markup language from Japanese language articles and automatic typesetting using extensible stylesheet language transformations
Hidehiko Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Naganawa, Soichi Tokizane, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Sci Ed. 2015;2(2):63-72.   Published online August 14, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.46
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A Japanese-language journal has been converted into the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) extensible markup language (XML) format, and typeset automatically via XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) to produce both the printed issues and online journals which are published on the J-STAGE e-journal platform in full-text hypertext markup language. As there is no established XML workflow tools available for Japanese language journals, the Nakanishi Printing Company has developed its own workflow using Antenna House (AH) Formatter. AS scientific, technical, and medical journals are by-and-large in international standards even in Japanese-language, typesetting is fairly straightforward. Still, there are several challenges in processing agglutinative languages which are common in Asian counties such as Japanese, such as identifying family names/given names in a name string, or inserting “Zero Width Joiner” to avoid unfavorable line breaks. Also we had to develop individual extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) for each article to position tables and figures rightly. As we go on and work with humanities journals we should face more challenges.

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    Sun Huh
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Training Materials
Journal Article Tag Suite 1.0: National Information Standards Organization standard of journal extensible markup language
Sun Huh
Sci Ed. 2014;1(2):99-104.   Published online August 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.2014.1.99
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In the era of information technology, scholarly journals cannot escape the rising tide of technological advancement. To be exposed more easily to readers, the web forms of scholarly journals and articles become more important year after year. Furthermore, there is a trend of print journals closing, and a significant emergence of online journals. Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) extensible markup language (XML) became an National Information Standards Organization standard language in online journal publishing in 2012. It is an essential format to present readers with a more user-friendly interface. JATS XML was developed by PubMed Central (PMC) XML, which was a deposit form of articles to PMC. Editors and other publishing-related personnel should be able to understand the concept and production process of XML files. When JATS XML is produced, a variety of web presentation views can be generated, such as PubReader and epub 3.0. Further, JATS XML can be easily converted to digital object identifier CrossRef XML, CrossMark XML, and FundRef XML. Small scholarly society journal editors and publishers can promote the visibility of their journals by depositing JATS XML files to PMC or ScienceCentral. Owing to these benefits of JATS XML, publishers and editors should now adopt JATS XML for journal publishing.

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    Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.2020; 31(4): 201.     CrossRef
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    Data and Information Management.2019; 3(1): 3.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Blood Research.2018; 53(2): 95.     CrossRef
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    Lucila Ohno-Machado, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, George Alter, Ian Fore, Jeffrey Grethe, Hua Xu, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Anupama E Gururaj, Elizabeth Bell, Ergin Soysal, Nansu Zong, Hyeon-eui Kim
    Nature Genetics.2017; 49(6): 816.     CrossRef
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    Neurointervention.2016; 11(1): 5.     CrossRef
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    Journal of Gastric Cancer.2016; 16(1): 8.     CrossRef
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    Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery.2016; 8(2): 127.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Korean Journal of Child Studies.2016; 37(1): 7.     CrossRef
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    Geum‐Hee Jeong, Sun Huh
    Learned Publishing.2016; 29(3): 193.     CrossRef
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    Database.2016;[Epub]     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Clinical Endoscopy.2015; 48(4): 317.     CrossRef
  • How much progress has been made in journal metrics two years after the citation analysis of theKorean Journal of Urology?
    Sun Huh
    Korean Journal of Urology.2015; 56(4): 276.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions.2015; 12: 57.     CrossRef
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    Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine.2015; 39(5): 661.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Archives of Plastic Surgery.2014; 41(06): 617.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine.2014; 41(4): 147.     CrossRef
Coding practice of the Journal Article Tag Suite extensible markup language
Sun Huh
Sci Ed. 2014;1(2):105-112.   Published online August 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.2014.1.105
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In general, the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) extensible markup language (XML) coding is processed automatically by an XML filtering program. In this article, the basic tagging in JATS is explained in terms of coding practice. A text editor that supports UTF-8 encoding is necessary to input JATS XML data that works in every language. Any character representable in Unicode can be used in JATS XML, and commonly available web browsers can be used to view JATS XML files. JATS XML files can refer to document type definitions, extensible stylesheet language files, and cascading style sheets, but they must specify the locations of those files. Tools for validating JATS XML files are available via the web sites of PubMed Central and ScienceCentral. Once these files are uploaded to a web server, they can be accessed from all over the world by anyone with a browser. Encoding an example article in JATS XML may help editors in deciding on the adoption of JATS XML.

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    Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.2020; 31(4): 201.     CrossRef
  • Journal metrics of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology based on the Web of Science Core Collection
    Sun Huh
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2018; 24(2): 137.     CrossRef
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    Sun Huh
    Neurointervention.2016; 11(1): 5.     CrossRef
  • Journal of Gastric Cancer's Promotion to International Journal from the Perspective of Biliometric Analysis
    Sun Huh
    Journal of Gastric Cancer.2016; 16(1): 8.     CrossRef
  • Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery's Evolution into an International Journal Based on Journal Metrics
    Sun Huh
    Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery.2016; 8(2): 127.     CrossRef
  • How much progress has been made in journal metrics two years after the citation analysis of theKorean Journal of Urology?
    Sun Huh
    Korean Journal of Urology.2015; 56(4): 276.     CrossRef
  • Evidence of the Internationalization ofClinical EndoscopyBased on Journal Metrics
    Sun Huh
    Clinical Endoscopy.2015; 48(4): 317.     CrossRef
  • The Elevation ofAnnals of Rehabilitation Medicineto the Status of an International Journal After Adopting an English-Only Policy
    Sun Huh
    Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine.2015; 39(5): 661.     CrossRef
  • How Journal Metrics Illustrate the Transformation of Archives of Plastic Surgery into an International Journal
    Sun Huh
    Archives of Plastic Surgery.2014; 41(06): 617.     CrossRef
  • What is the position ofClinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicinein its scholarly journal network based on journal metrics?
    Sun Huh
    Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine.2014; 41(4): 147.     CrossRef
Review
Using Journal Article Tag Suite extensible markup language for scholarly journal articles written in Korean
Sun Huh, Tae Jin Choi, So-Hyeong Kim
Sci Ed. 2014;1(1):19-23.   Published online February 13, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.2014.1.19
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The Republic of Korea is the fourth ranking country for the number of PubMed Central (PMC) journals. As of September 2013, 75 journals from Korea are included in PMC. Starting in 2013, several research funding agencies for scholarly journal publications in Korea began to establish open access, full-text databases in the fields of medicine, science, and social sciences and humanities. In those databases, Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) 1.0 is used so that articles written in the Korean language can be easily manipulated as full-text extensible markup language (XML). Editors or publishers must produce full-text XML files based on JATS 1.0. Thus this paper surveys the current state of the application of JATS 1.0 to Korean scholarly journals, including both those in English and those in Korean, focusing on the current technology, training programs, and the policy of the Korean government on open access, full-text XML. This experience in Korea can be a model for constructing mother-tongue, open access, full-text journal databases based on JATS 1.0 in other countries. The usefulness of JATS in scholarly journal publications not only of all fields, but also in all languages, is stressed.

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