Citation analysis of orthopaedic literature; 18 major orthopaedic journals compared for Impact Factor and SCImago

Table 1 Self-citing rate, self-cited rate, citation density and IF 2007

Journal*	Self-citing^a(%)	Self-cited^b(%)	Citation density (%)	Impact Factor 2007	Corrected IF (cIF)	Difference^c(ΔIF = IF -- cIF)
General orthopaedic journals
Acta	7	5	31	1.285	1.122	0.163
AOTS	2	4	23	0.913	0.873	0.040
BMC MD	1	6	38	1.323	1,226	0.097
CORR	15	8	31	1.891	1.626	0.265
Int Orthop	4	8	22	0.903	0.796	0.107
JBJS [Am]	7	6	36	2.487	2.363	0.124
JBJS [Br]	6	7	28	1.868	1.664	0.204
OCNA	1	1	53	1.692	1.692	0.000
Specialized orthopaedic journals
AJSM	19	14	34	3.397	2.731	0.666
Arthroscopy	27	23	22	2.296	1.550	0.746
ESJ	5	17	34	2.021	1.545	0.476
FAI	24	38	23	0.956	0.581	0.375
JoA	14	15	21	1.609	1.403	0.206
JOT	11	13	29	1.429	1.199	0.230
JPO	15	9	34	1.036	0.927	0.109
JSES	14	21	24	1.348	1.158	0.190
KSSTA	5	16	26	1.626	1.314	0.312
Spine	29	20	32	2.499	1.871	0.628

Acta Orthopaedica (Acta), American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM), Arthroscopy, Archives of Orthopaedics and Trauma (AOTS), BMC Musculoskeleletal Disorders (BMC MD), Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (CORR), European Spine Journal (ESJ), Foot and Ankle International (FAI), International Orthopaedics (Int Orthop), Journal of Arthroplasty (JOA), the American Volume of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS [Am]), the British volume of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS [Br]), Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT), Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics (JPO), Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery (JSES), Knee surgery sports traumatology arthroscopy (KSSTA), Orthopaedic Clinics of North America (OCNA), and Spine.
^a p = 0.01, Mann--Whitney between general and specialized journals.
^bp = 0.0004, Mann--Whitney between general and specialized journals.
^c p = 0.003, Mann--Whitney between general and specialized journals.

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