[Citation analysis of the Hungarian-language Orvosi Hetilap based on indicators between 2012 and 2016].

Introduction: After getting indexed by scientific databases - Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports - the obtained scientific performance of the journal needs to be kept up.

Aim: The aim of this article is to analyse citation numbers based on different bibliometric indicators between 2012 and 2016 comparing data with an article published in 2012.

Method: Authors evaluated issues of Orvosi Hetilap published in 2013-2015 and searched data in various international databases. Number of citations, quality of citing journals were analysed based on the official 2015-2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap. Scientific performance of the journal was evaluated according to data of SCImago webpage and Scopus database as well.

Results: The official 2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap is 0,349 which is the highest value compared with the previous factors. The articles of Orvosi Hetilap are cited by international authors and high impact factor journals, too. Further, more than half of the publications cited are open access. The most frequently cited categories are original and review articles, and case reports. Scientific performance of Orvosi Hetilap is promising according to indicators of SCImago webpage and Scopus database. Mean self-citation rate of the journal is about 30%. Its h-index is 7 in Web of Science Core Collection, and 19 in Scopus database.

Conclusions: Citation analysis of this article shows that citation numbers and various bibliometric indicators can increase in a short period, but drastic changes can only happen in a long period with keeping and pushing the obtained values, and focusing on the further development of the journal. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(30): 1226-1234.