Citation Analysis of the Articles Published in the Turkish Journal of Urology Between March 2007 and December 2013

Objective: To evaluate the citation rates and impact factor of Turkish Journal of Urology (TJU) in the recent years with assessing the im- pact of some differences on citation characteristics, such as article type, urological subspecialty of the article and article region. Material and Methods: All of the articles published in the TJU between March 2007 and December 2013 were included into the study. Types of articles, related urological subspecialty of articles and institutional regions of the authors were recorded. The citation counts of all articles were analyzed by using Google Scholar. Citations were also categorized as national and international. Citation rates were separetly calculated ac- cording to article types (such as original research, review, etc.), related urological subspecialty of articles and intuitional regions of the authors. Im- pact factors of the TJU were also determined in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Results: A total of 495 articles were included into the study. Total citation counts were detected as 292, 250 of which (74.2%) were national. Highest citation rates were in original research articles, articles about endourology and articles submitted from the Aegean Region of Turkey (0.768, 0.936 and 0.823, respectively). The highest IF was determined in 2011 as 0.147 whereas the lowest was 0.027 in 2012. Conclusions: TJU is an international journal of urology and it has relatively limited citation rates up to now. Further studies must be carried on to assess the citation rates of the journal after indexing in PubMed Central and PubMed