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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journalopen access

Country

Pakistan

Universities and research institutions in Pakistan
Media Ranking in Pakistan

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Army Medical College

H-Index

7

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

00309648, 24118842

Coverage

2019-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

editor@pafmj.org

Scope

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal (PAFMJ) publishes scholarly work from all the medical and allied subjects (basic as well as clinical) including medical education as well as from biological and biomedical sciences. The manuscripts submitted for publication may be in the form of an original research (randomized controlled trial, metanalysis, quasi experimental study, case control study, cohort study or cross-sectional analytical study), review article, case report, book review, recent advances, new techniques, debates, adverse drug reports, current practices, audit report, evidence-based report, short communication, or a letter to the editor. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Health Professions (miscellaneous)2022Q4
Health Professions (miscellaneous)2023Q4
Medicine (miscellaneous)2022Q4
Medicine (miscellaneous)2023Q4
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2022Q4
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2023Q4
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.

YearSJR
20220.108
20230.116
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
2019347
2020531
2021635
2022703
2023585
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 documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.127
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.158
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.147
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.125
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.127
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.158
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.147
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.105
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.127
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.158
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.126
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.084
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.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20190
Self Cites202013
Self Cites202113
Self Cites202236
Self Cites202323
Total Cites20190
Total Cites202044
Total Cites2021139
Total Cites2022223
Total Cites2023197
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.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20190
External Cites per document20200.089
External Cites per document20210.144
External Cites per document20220.124
External Cites per document20230.093
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20200.127
Cites per document20210.158
Cites per document20220.147
Cites per document20230.105
% 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.

YearInternational Collaboration
20193.17
20203.58
20213.94
20223.84
20232.74
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.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20207
Non-citable documents202117
Non-citable documents202228
Non-citable documents202332
Citable documents20190
Citable documents2020340
Citable documents2021861
Citable documents20221485
Citable documents20231837
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.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20190
Uncited documents2020310
Uncited documents2021769
Uncited documents20221336
Uncited documents20231696
Cited documents20190
Cited documents202037
Cited documents2021109
Cited documents2022177
Cited documents2023173
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201940.00
202042.46
202140.85
202243.98
202343.51
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20190
Overton20200
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG2019161
SDG2020232
SDG2021243
SDG2022292
SDG2023218
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