How Journal Metrics Illustrate the Transformation of Archives of Plastic

Surgery into an International Journal number of citations of 21 years ’ worth of JKSPRS was 217 cita-tions of 149 articles; strikingly, in less than 2 years ’ worth of APS publication, 280 citations of 135 APS articles occurred (up to September 2014). Therefore, the average number of citations per article for JKSPRS was 0.084, while that of APS was an order of magnitude higher, at 0.795. The citations per document (2 years) for APS from the 2013 SCImago Journal and Country Ranking, was 1.074. The SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR) was 0.424, which is a ranking of 178 out of 379 surgery journals (47.0%). The countries of authors published in APS from Janu