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Quality & Safety in Health Care (formerly Quality in Health Care) is a leading international peer review journal in this [...]

Quality & Safety in Health Care (formerly Quality in Health Care) is a leading international peer review journal in this growing area of quality and safety improvement. It provides essential information for those wanting to reduce harm and improve patient safety and the quality of care. The journal reports and reflects research, improvement initiatives and viewpoints and other discursive papers relevant to these crucial aims with contributions from researchers, clinical professionals and managers and experts in organisational development and behaviour. (source)

SJR indicator vs. Cites per Doc (2y)

The SJR indicator 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. Cites per Doc. (2y) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal, it is computed using the same formula that journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters).

Citation vs. Self-Citation

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document

Evolution of the number of total cites per document and external cites per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document in 2, 3 and 4 years windows

Evolution of Citations per Document to a journal's published documents during the two, three and four previous years. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

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.

Journal's Citable vs. 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.

Journal's Cited vs. 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.

Indicators	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
SJR	1,155	1,298	1,249	1,079	1,024	1,110	0,950	1,333	1,163	1,314	1,534	1,384	1,194
Total Documents	149	140	149	168	238	204	170	154	161	164	154	175	192
Total Docs. (3years)	460	455	436	438	457	555	610	612	528	485	479	479	493
Total References	3.815	4.001	3.589	4.131	5.843	4.871	4.767	4.440	4.001	4.296	4.384	4.601	5.052
Total Cites (3years)	816	1.093	967	905	984	1.145	1.264	1.665	1.386	1.301	1.471	1.361	1.332
Self Cites (3years)	71	86	90	90	123	94	89	130	71	87	109	97	99
Citable Docs. (3years)	393	390	381	375	368	432	486	492	432	374	364	356	367
Cites / Doc. (4years)	2,08	2,74	2,68	2,53	2,75	2,82	2,76	3,50	3,47	3,44	4,12	3,83	3,93
Cites / Doc. (3years)	2,08	2,80	2,54	2,41	2,67	2,65	2,60	3,38	3,21	3,48	4,04	3,82	3,63
Cites / Doc. (2years)	1,98	2,48	2,18	2,26	2,22	2,41	2,44	2,79	3,18	3,26	3,97	3,45	3,05
References / Doc.	25,60	28,58	24,09	24,59	24,55	23,88	28,04	28,83	24,85	26,20	28,47	26,29	26,31
Cited Docs.	292	306	308	289	307	375	406	431	377	346	364	335	346
Uncited Docs.	168	149	128	149	150	180	204	181	151	139	115	144	147
% International Collaboration	20,13	20,71	19,46	14,29	17,65	18,63	28,24	28,57	25,47	29,88	33,12	29,71	32,29