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*1University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences* 

Science is cumulative. Science would not exist without the publication of research results. Publishing the results of scientific research is the basic characteristic of the process of scientific information and communication. The purpose of research in social medicine is to achieve enlightenment necessary for considered and effective health care. Social medicine covers the research of social factors that affect health or disease, examine interactions between medicine and society, and highlight social problems that affect health. Therefore, it is very important to publish results of research in the field of social medicine in an individual country, and by publishing in local scientific publications, enlighten the local professional public. Local experts who are aware of the research results can have more of an impact on the health in individual countries than foreign experts, especially if the studies performed are not the result of international cooperation, but the result of cooperation at the local (state) level. On the other hand, foreign experts and the international community should be reserved for presenting results of research at the international level, particularly

In a text that summarises the research of scientific communication up to the year 2000, it states that in a technological sense, scientific communication in recent decades has changed considerably due to the use of computers, electronic mail, digital libraries, the World Wide Web and the Internet (Borgman & Furne, 2002). But has this changed the behaviour of people involved in this process of scientific communication? Are we witnesses to revolution

Bibliometrics is the exploration of the quantitative aspects of the production and the dissemination of written (scientific) information usage. Bibliometrics measures publications, patents, citations and other potential informative units or their properties, and uses them as the base for factors with which it measures and evaluates research, science and technology (Clarke et al., 2007; Costas et al., 2010; Južnič, 1998; Južnič, 1999; Takahashi-Omoe et al.,

Bibliometrics provides a powerful set of tools and criteria for the study of structures and processes of scientific communication. Citation analysis, the most known bibliometric

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