The production and recognition of psychiatric original articles published in languages other than English

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Journals included five German language and five international non-English general psychiatry journals selected for citation analysis of original articles

Journal	Language	Country of origin	Publisher	Indexed in Medline	IF 2010	AI 2010
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr	German	Germany	Thieme-Verlag	Yes	0.652	0.095
Nervenarzt	German	Germany	Springer-Verlag	Yes	0.729	0.114
Nervenheilkunde	German	Germany	Schattauer-Verlag	No	0.368	0.033
Psychiatr Prax	German	Germany	Thieme-Verlag	Yes	2.204	0.110
Z Psychiatr, Psychol Psychother	German	Switzerland	Huber-Verlag	No	1.952	0.163
Ann Med Psychol	French	France	Masson Editeur	No	0.161	0.035
Encephale	French	France	Masson Editeur	Yes	0.421	0.094
Psychiatr Pol	Polish	Poland	Wydawniczy Polskiego Torwarzystwa	Yes	0.173	0.051
Rev Psiq Clin	Portuguese¹	Brazil	Sao Paulo University	No	0.648	0.202
Riv Psichiatr	Italian	Italy	Pensiero Scientifico Editor	Yes	0.207	0.035

¹ In 2009 Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica published a limited number of original articles in English and not in Portuguese. Those articles were not included in the present analysis.
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr, Fortschritte der Neurologie und Psychiatrie; Nervenarzt, Der Nervenarzt; Nervenheilkunde, Nervenheilkunde; Psychiatr Prax, Psychiatrische Praxis, Z Psychiatr, Psychol Psychother, Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie.
Ann Med Psychol, Annales Medico-Psychologiques; Encephale, L’Encephale; Psychiatr Pol, Psychiatria Polska; Rev Psyq Clin, Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica; Riv Psichiatr, Rivista di Psichiatria.
IF, Impact factor; AI, Article influence score. The article influence score is different from the impact factor because it does not consider self-cites and does not rely on citations from journals included in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Indices only. Similar to Google’s page rank procedure citations are weighted according to the estimated importance of their source. The article influence score is weighted for the number of articles published in a journal (http://www.eigenfactor.org). Impact factors and article influence scores were retrieved from Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report. Of note, both indices take not only into account original articles but all citeable articles of a journal.

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