Abstract:
Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is the premier and oldest medical
journal in Sri Lanka. Bibliometric studies on single journals are useful
to find out the research trend in a discipline and publication trend of the
journal. The objective of the study was to conduct a bibliometric study
of CMJ. The study sought to identify co-authorship pattern,
geographical distribution of authors, productive institutions, prolific
authors, productive articles and the impact of the research work
published in CMJ during the study period. The required data of all the
selected articles published from 2003 to 2012, related to the analysis
were collected from Scopus database. The collected data were analyzed
in terms of bibliometric parameters by MS excel 2007 and Bibexcel.
The study revealed multi authored articles occupy prominent position
indicating cooperative research work. Three author contributions was
the highest ranked authorship pattern. Majority (90%) of the authors
publishing articles in CMJ were from Sri Lanka. The most prolific
author contributed 18 articles during the study period. The most
productive article received 57 citations recorded in SCOPUS data-base.
University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya were leading
institutions in publishing articles in CMJ during the study period. The
study highlighted some research trends in health sciences and
publishing trends of CMJ. The country distribution of authors showed
that the journal reflects the research and views of health researchers
mainly from Sri Lanka. The study provides suggestions to improve the
impact of the research articles published in CMJ.
