Background: Scientific researchers in the field of biomedicine have the role to interact through published articles in the scientific journal or presentations at scientific and professional conferences because on this way they can affect to the practices that can make people healthier and more satisfied with outcomes of health care systems. For this reason, scientists are encouraged, especially young ones, that after complete the project and finalyze their research investigation to publish scientific work outcomes in a professional and scientific journals. Objective: The aim of this article is to present the current tools available in scientometry for the evaluation of scientific validity of published articles and explain the purpose and, also, to describe the role of important indexed database in dissemination knowledge through the biomedical journals. Methods: Author searched the most influential on-line databases and analyzed deposited papers within the topic scientometrics and used descriptive method of reviewing important facts about experiences with scientometrics in the scientific and academic practice. Results and Discussion: Bibliometric methods are used for quantitative analysis of written materials. Citation provides guidelines for scientific work, because it stimulates scientists to deal with the most current areas of research, and organizes scientific article at the world level, or shapes and directs it. Citation is influenced by: article quality, understanding of the article, language in which the article is written, loyalty to a group of researchers, article type, etc. Some of the indicators used in the evaluation of scientific work are: Impact factor (IF); Citation of the article; Journal citations; Number and order of authors, etc. Impact Factor is the number of citations of articles published in the journal during the previous two years divided by the total number of articles published in the journal during the same period. Factor of influence depends on: the quality of the journal, the language on which it was printed, the area it covers, the journal distribution system. Conclusion: In this article we pointed that h-Index and Google Scholar indexes presents one of a set of valuable measures to determine scientific excellence. Although the h-Index is a better measure than a citation impact factor (IF), it is still based on the opinions of other authors. Since research in medicine can affect the improvement of clinical and public health practices, it is necessary to conduct them. Only quality research with exact results offers the scientific community new information about the examined problem, and the researcher personal satisfaction, the possibility of communicating and conducting scientific dialogue with other members of the academic community, and opening opportunities to receive critical review of those who have insight into the research.
Key words: Scientometry, scientific publications, citation, IF, h-Index, Google Scholar index.
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