Qualitative Characteristics and Citation Behavior of Thai Academic Journals

Abstract

This article studied the qualitative characteristics and citation behavior of Thai academic journals,by considering the number of publication and citation of Thai academic journals from various publishingsources, subject categories and journal ages. In this work, we used 166 journal titles published during theyears of 2001-2006 listed in Thai Journal Citation Index (TCI) database. It was found that journals run byprofessional society publishers had the highest numbers of çpublication per journalé and çcitation perarticleé, the most pronounced being observed for medical science category. Journals run by universitypublishers had lowest numbers of çcitation per articleé as found in multidisciplinary sciences category.The greater the journal ages the higher the numbers of çpublication per journalé and çcitation per articleé.According to citations in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) suggested that the journalsçThe Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Healthé and çJournal of the MedicalAssociation of Thailandé had a potential to be indexed in the SCI-EXPANDED database.

Keywords : Thai Academic Journal / Citation / Publication / TCI Database