The document summarizes scientific impact metrics for institutions, journals, and researchers in Macedonia. It discusses: - Rankings of Macedonian universities in global university rankings and the SCImago Institutions Rankings, with the University of Skopje ranked highest. - Inclusion of a few Macedonian scholarly journals in international databases like Web of Science, with most journals having low impact factors and rankings. - Top authors from Macedonia based on number of publications in Scopus and PubMed, with the highest ranked author having over 150 PubMed publications.

1. Scientific Impact of Institutions,
Academic Journals and Researchers
in the Republic of Macedonia
Prof. Dr. Mirko Spiroski
Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje,
Republic of Macedonia
E-mal: mspiroski@yahoo.com
Editor-in-Chief of Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
E-mail: mjms@ukim.edu.mk

2. In short: Scientific impact of …
• Republic of Macedonia
• Universities from Republic of Macedonia
• Scholarly journals in the Republic of
Macedonia
• Researchers from Republic of Macedonia

3. Using citation analysis to measure
research impact
Citation-based
metrics
Ranking
institutions
(countries,
universities …)
Ranking
journals
Ranking
researchers
Ranking
articles
(Altmetrics)
Amplification
of citations
(Scientific
networks)

4. Scopus or Web of Science

5. RANKING INSTITUTIONS IN MACEDONIA
(COUNTRIES, UNIVERSITIES …)

6. Calculation of Hirsh index (h-index) from a plot
of decreasing citations for numbered papers
The h-index is an index that attempts to measure
both the productivity and impact of the published
work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on
the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the
number of citations that they have received in
other publications. The index can also be applied to
the productivity and impact of a group of scientists,
such as a department or university or country, as
well as a scholarly journal. The index was suggested
by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at UCSD, as a tool for
determining theoretical physicists' relative quality
and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch
number.

7. SCImago country ranking of Macedonia in the world
ordered by H-index (SCOPUS data source)

8. SCImago country ranking of Macedonia in the Eastern
Europe ordered by H-index (SCOPUS data source)

9. Global rankings of World Universities
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings
• G-factor
• Global University Ranking
• HEEACT—Ranking of Scientific Papers
• High Impact Universities: Research Performance Index
• Human Resources & Labor Review
• Leiden Ranking
• Newsweek
• Professional Ranking of World Universities
• QS World University Rankings
• QS Asian University Rankings
• QS Latin American University Rankings
• SCImago Institutions Rankings
• U-Multirank
• University Ranking by Academic Performance
• Webometrics
• Wuhan University

10. SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR)
based on SCOPUS data source
• Every year, SCImago Research Group publishes two reports
on institutions, the Ibero-American SIR (SCImago Research
Group, 2012a) and the Global SIR (SCImago Research
Group, 2012b).
• The former usually appears in March and it includes all
higher education institutions of Ibero-American countries
with at least one document published in the Scopus data
base during the five-year period.
• The Global SIR is published in July and it takes into account
those organizations from any country, with at least 100
documents published in the last year of the five-year
period. The chronological range extends from 2003 to 2012
and each report represents the five-year period with
indicators.

11. Coverage periods of SCImago
Institutions Rankings
SCImago Research Group, for the SIR implementation, processes information of
documents contained in Scopus published from 2003 to the present, in each of
the editions. Institutions are certainly units sensitive to onditioning factors
external to the organization. Therefore, for the development of each SIR new
version, five-year periods are set for the analysis. In this manner we stabilize
the calculation of scientometric indicators and prevent to operate with data
from one particular year related with a specific situation. The available versions
of SIR are he following:
– SIR 2014. Scientific production on the period 2008-2012
– SIR 2013. Scientific production on the period 2007-2011
– SIR 2012. Scientific production on the period 2006-2010
– SIR 2011. Scientific production on the period 2005-2009
– SIR 2010. Scientific production on the period 2004-2008
– SIR 2009. Scientific production on the period 2003-2007

12. This is a current list of universities in
the Republic of Macedonia
Public Universities
1. Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (UC&M)
2. St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola (UCO)
3. Goce Delčev University of Štip (GDU)
4. University for Information Science and Technology "St. Paul The Apostle" in Ohrid (UIST)
5. State University of Tetovo (SUT)
Private Universities and Faculties
1. International Balkan University
2. Euro College Kumanovo
3. South East European University
4. International University Of Struga
5. FON University
6. University American College Skopje
7. University of Tourism and Management in Skopje
8. Slavic University
9. European University-Republic of Macedonia
10. University of Studies Struga "EuroCollege"
11. MIT Faculties
12. New York University Skopje
13. University for Audiovisual Arts - Parisian European Film Academy ESRA - Skopje
14. International Summer University
15. BAS - Business Academy Smilevski - Skopje

13. Institutional scientific impact of universities in Republic of
Macedonia in the period of 2009-2013 years
(SCOPUS data source)
Regional
rank
(Eastern
Europe)
World
rank
YearUniversityIndex
SIR
UC&M
2009 1813 156
2010 1814 145
2011 1803 131
2012 1821 131
2013 1726 127
UCO 2013 2737 333

14. RANKING JOURNALS IN MACEDONIA

15. Inclusion of Macedonian scholarly journals in
Web of Sciences, PubMed or PubMed Central
Journal IF 2012 PubMed
PubMed
Central
Macedonian
Journal of
Chemistry and
Chemical
Engineering
0.821 No No
Prilozi - Yes No
Balkan Journal
of Medical
Genetics
0.077 No Yes

16. SCImago Journal & Country Rank
•The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a
portal that includes the journals and country
scientific indicators developed from the
information contained in
the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These
indicators can be used to assess and analyze
scientific domains.
•This platform takes its name from
the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator,
developed by SCImago from the widely known
algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator
shows the visibility of the journals contained in
the Scopus® database from 1996.

17. Page Rank algorithm for measuring
relative importance of scientific impact
•PageRank is a link analysis
algorithm, named after Larry
Page and used by the Google
Internet search engine, that
assigns a numerical weighting
to each element of a
hyperlinked set of documents,
such as the World Wide Web,
with the purpose of
"measuring" its relative
importance within the set.
•The algorithm may be applied
to any collection of entities with
reciprocal quotations and
references. The numerical
weight that it assigns to any
given element E is referred to
as the PageRank of E and
denoted by PR(E).

18. Five academic journals from Macedonia are deposited
and indexed in SCOPUS for 2012 year
Title SJR H index
Total
Docs.
(2012)
Total
Docs.
(3years)
Total
Refs.
Total
Cites
(3years)
Citable
Docs.
(3years)
Cites /
Doc.
(2years)
Ref. /
Doc.
1 Filomat 0.482 5 25 115 572 86 115 0.75 22.88
2
Macedonian
Journal of
Chemistry
and Chemical
Engineering
0.275 6 23 60 851 57 58 1.03 37.00
3
Macedonian
Journal of
Medical
Sciences
0.122 4 57 169 1.750 32 159 0.21 30.70
4
Balkan
Journal of
Medical
Genetics
0.103 4 10 57 242 6 56 0.08 24.20
5
BANTAO
Journal
0.000 0 11 0 171 0 0 0.00 15.55

19. Comparison of four biomedical journals from
Macedonia included in SCOPUS database based on SJR

20. Comparison of four biomedical journals from Macedonia
included in SCOPUS database based on H-index

21. Macedonian scholarly journals
included in Google Scholar metrics
Rank Journal
h5-
index
h5-
median
1.
Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering
8 14
2.
Prilozi/Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite,
Oddelenie za biološki i medicinski nauki=
Contributions/Macedonian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, Section of Biological and Medical Sciences
8 13
3. Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 6 8
4. Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics 3 4
5. Macedonian Journal of Animal Science 2 2
6. Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation 2 2
h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h
such that h articles published in 2007-2011 have at least h citations each.
h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-
index.

22. RANKING RESEARCHERS IN
MACEDONIA

23. Number of published papers by the top 10 authors from the Ss
Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of
Macedonia in the Scopus database

24. Hirsh index (H-index) by the top 10 authors from the Ss Cyril
and Methodius University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in
the Scopus database
Rank Researcher H-index
1. Dimirovski G 14
2. Soptrajanov B 13
3. Gavrilovska L 5
4. Davcev D 5
5. Polenakovic M 12
6. Stafilov T 21
7. Spiroski M 11
8. Gusev M 4
9. Kocarev L 30
10. Bogoeva-Gaceva G 12

25. Central role of PubMed database with different
databases, programs or WEB sites which use abstracts
for analysis
PubMed
Biomed
Experts
PubGet
Go2Pub
GoPubMed

26. Number of abstracts and relative research interest from the Republic of
Macedonia indexed in PubMed database and semantically analyzed with
GoPubMed (1469 abstracts identified on March 18, 2013)
A significant increase of abstracted papers was recorded during the period of 1989-2012
(from 50 abstracts to 180 abstracts, respectively) and a significant increase of relative
research interest (from 0.00006% to 0.00018%, respectively). The relative increase for the
period between 1989 and 2012 was 27.8% for the abstracts and 33.3% for the relative
research interest

27. Top twenty authors from the Republic of Macedonia according
to abstracts indexed in PubMed semantically analysed with
GoPubMed (1469 abstracts identified on March 18, 2013)
Rank Author
Number of PubMed
Abstracts (%)
1 "Polenakovic M" 156 (10.6 %)
2 "Efremov G" 154 (10.5 %)
3 "Tasic V" 93 (6.3 %)
4 "Spasovski G" 79 (5.4 %)
5 "Gucev Z" OR "Guchev Z" 63 (4.3 %)
6 "Popov Z" 58 (3.9 %)
7 "Ivanovski N" 53 (3.6 %)
8 "Petrusevska G" OR "Petrushevska G" 52 (3.5 %)
9 "Spiroski M" OR "Spirovski M" 51 (3.5 %)
10 "Sikole A" 51 (3.5 %)
11 "Stafilov T" 40 (2.7 %)
12 "Pop-Jordanova N" 38 (2.6 %)
13 "Cakalaroski K" 36 (2.4 %)
14 "Dzikova S" 32 (2.2 %)
16 "Grcevska L" 30 (2.0 %)
17 "Kolevski P" 26 (1.8 %)
18 "Kocarev L" 26 (1.8 %)
19 "Georgievska-Ismail L" 25 (1.7 %)
20 "Petlickovski A" OR "Petlichkovski A" 23 (1.6 %)
Total number of abstracts 1063 (72.4 %)

28. Conclusions
• The rank of the Macedonia according the SCImago Journal & Country
Rank (SJR) is 99th in the world and 18th in the Eastern Europe.
• Out of 20 Universities in Macedonia, only Ss Cyril and Methodius
University of Skopje and University St Clement of Bitola are listed in
SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) for 2013.
• Very small number of Macedonian scholarly journals are included in
WOS (1), PubMed (1), PubMed Central (1), SCOPUS (5), and Google
Scholar metrics (6).
• SCOPUS rank and SCOPUS H-index are different for the top 10 authors
from Macedonia.
• Top twenty Macedonian authors published 72.4% of the total number
of abstracts indexed in PubMed.
• There is urgent need for organized improvement of the quality of
researchers, scholarly journals, and institutions in Macedonia in order
to achieve higher international standards.

29. Acknowledgements
Present members of Editorial Board of Mac J Med Sci (2013-):
– Doncho Donev
– Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska
– Marko Spasov
– Sasho Stoleski
– Ivo Spiroski
– Katarina Stavric
Past members of Editorial Board of Mac J Med Sci (2008-2012):
– Jean Gogusev
– Stojmir Petrov
– Dejan Trajkov
– Aleksandar Petlichkovski
– Slavica Hristomanova
– Meri Kirijas
– Aleksandar Senev
– Natasha Arsova