Scientometric Implosion that Leads to Explosion: Case Study of Armenian Journals  

作　　者：Shushanik Sargsyan Edita Gzoyan Aram Mirzoyan Viktor Blaginin 

机构地区：[1]Center for Scientific Information Analysis and Monitoring(CSIAM),Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems,National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia(IIAP NAS RA),0014 Yerevan,Armenia [2]Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi,Medical Physics Department,0025 Yerevan,Armenia [3]Center on Scientometrics and Ranking Researches.Ural State University of Economics,620014 Yekaterinburg,Russia

出　　处：《Journal of Data and Information Science》2020年第3期187-196,共10页数据与情报科学学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Purpose: The purpose of this study is to introduce a new concept and term into the scientometric discourse and research—scientometric implosion—and test the idea on the example of the Armenian journals. The article argues that the existence of a compressed scientific area in the country makes pressure on the journals and after some time this pressure makes one or several journals explode—break the limited national scientific area and move to the international arena. As soon as one of the local journals breaks through this compressed space and appears at an international level, further explosion happens, which makes the other journals follow the same path.Design/methodology/approach: Our research is based on three international scientific databases—WoS, Scopus, and RISC CC, from where we have retrieved information about the Armenian journals indexed there and citations received by those journals and one national database—the Armenian Science Citation Index. Armenian Journal Impact Factor(ArmJIF) was calculated for the local Armenian journals based on the general impact factor formula. Journals were classified according to Gl?nzel and Schubert(2003). Findings: Our results show that the science policy developed by the scientific authorities of Armenia and the introduction of ArmJIF have made the Armenian journals comply with international standards and resulted in some local journals to break the national scientific territory and be indexed in international scientific databases of RISC, Scopus, and WoS. Apart from complying with technical requirements, the journals start publishing articles also in foreign languages. Although nearly half of the local journals are in the fields of social sciences and humanities, only one journal from that field is indexed in international scientific databases. Research limitation: One of the limitations of the study is that it was performed on the example of only one state and the second one is that more time passage is needed to firmly evaluate the results. However, the in

关 键 词：Sceintometric implosion Armenian Journal Impact Factor(ArmJIF) National scientific databases Armenian Science Citation Index(ASCI) International scientific databases 

分 类 号：G353.1[文化科学—情报学] G237.5