Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research

Table 2 Top 10 most productive journals on health systems research

No.	Journal	1900–1990	%	1991–2000	%	2001–2012	%	1900–2012	%	TLCS	TLCS/t	TGCS	TGCS/t	AGCS	IF	h-index
1	Social Science & Medicine	32	4.96	169	3.00	293	1.30	494	1.72	1196	125.40	8498	891.24	17.20	2.733	41
2	Health Policy	11	1.71	110	1.95	304	1.35	425	1.48	930	98.63	4169	498.33	9.81	1.550	26
3	Health Affairs	4	0.62	111	1.97	290	1.29	405	1.41	1302	157.44	9034	1163.22	22.31	4.641	45
4	BMC Health Services Research	—	—	—	—	331	1.47	332	1.15	0	0.00	1796	398.64	5.41	1.773	18
5	American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy	—	—	87	1.55	181	0.80	268	0.93	226	31.02	1551	219.67	5.79	1.984	18
6	Medical Care	6	0.93	56	1.00	158	0.70	220	0.76	456	51.17	4744	513.83	21.56	3.227	34
7	Academic Medicine	—	—	80	1.42	131	0.58	211	0.73	219	23.48	2952	330.01	13.99	3.292	29
8	Psychiatric Services	—	—	59	1.05	148	0.66	207	0.72	385	44.77	4012	443.42	19.38	2.013	33
9	BMC Public Health	—	—	—	—	204	0.91	204	0.71	0	0.00	1124	257.93	5.51	2.076	18
10	Health Policy and Planning	—	—	52	0.92	151	0.67	203	0.71	515	103.10	2391	352.32	11.78	3.056	25
11	Total	53	8.22	724	12.86	2191	9.73	2969	10.31	5229	635.01	40271	5068.61	13.56	—	—

TLCS, Total local citation score, which is the number of times cited by other papers in the local collection; TLCS/t, average value of TLCS in a year; TGCS, Total global citation score, which is the citation frequency based on the full WoS count at the time the data was downloaded; TGCS/t, average value of TGCS in a year; AGCS, average citation frequency of an article; IF, impact factor of journals (2012); h-index, h value of journals on HSR.

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