Special Discussion Issue on Journal Impact Factors

Articles (27 in this collection)

1. Comments on the Discussion Paper

   • Content type: Announcement
   • Published: 18 July 2012

   • Pages: 239 - 239

2. Discussion Paper

   • Content type: Announcement
   • Published: 18 July 2012

   • Pages: 209 - 209

3. Erratum to: Journal report card

   Authors

   • Judit Bar-Ilan

   • Content type: Erratum
   • Published: 22 June 2012

   • Pages: 261 - 261

4. Properties of journal impact in relation to bibliometric research group performance indicators

   Authors

   • Anthony F. J. van Raan

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Open Access
   • Published: 25 April 2012

   • Pages: 457 - 469

   

5. Evaluating journal performance metrics

   Authors

   • Gangan Prathap

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Published: 13 April 2012

   • Pages: 403 - 408

6. Citation-based metrics are appropriate tools in journal assessment provided that they are accurate and used in an informed way

   Authors (first, second and last of 7)

   • Henk F. Moed
   • Lisa Colledge
   • Mayur Amin

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Published: 25 March 2012

   • Pages: 367 - 376

7. The pragmatics of a diachronic journal impact factor

   Authors

   • Peter Ingwersen

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Published: 24 March 2012

   • Pages: 319 - 324

   

8. The Impact Factor in non-English-speaking countries

   Authors

   • Gregorio González-Alcaide
   • Juan Carlos Valderrama-Zurián
   • Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Published: 23 March 2012

   • Pages: 297 - 311

   

9. Comments on a critique of the Thomson Reuters journal impact factor

   Authors

   • David A. Pendlebury
   • Jonathan Adams

   • Content type: OriginalPaper
   • Published: 15 March 2012

   • Pages: 395 - 401

10. The journal impact factor: angel, devil, or scapegoat? A comment on J.K. Vanclay’s article 2011

    Authors

    • Michel Zitt

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 15 March 2012

    • Pages: 485 - 503

11. Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research

    Authors

    • Derek R. Smith

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 13 March 2012

    • Pages: 419 - 427

12. Discussing some basic critique on Journal Impact Factors: revision of earlier comments

    Authors

    • Thed van Leeuwen

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Open Access
    • Published: 29 February 2012

    • Pages: 443 - 455

    

13. Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective

    Authors

    • Mike Thelwall

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 29 February 2012

    • Pages: 429 - 441

14. The Garfield impact factor, one of the fundamental indicators in scientometrics

    Authors

    • Péter Vinkler

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 29 February 2012

    • Pages: 471 - 483

15. What do the scientists think about the impact factor?

    Authors

    • Gualberto Buela-Casal
    • Izabela Zych

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 22 February 2012

    • Pages: 281 - 292

    

16. Decades of progress, or the progress of decades?

    Authors

    • Francis Narin

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 21 February 2012

    • Pages: 391 - 393

17. Journal report card

    Authors

    • Judit Bar-Ilan

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 17 February 2012

    • Pages: 249 - 260

    

18. Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers

    Authors

    • Loet Leydesdorff

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Open Access
    • Published: 17 February 2012

    • Pages: 355 - 365

    

19. The generalized propensity score methodology for estimating unbiased journal impact factors

    Authors

    • Rüdiger Mutz
    • Hans-Dieter Daniel

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 17 February 2012

    • Pages: 377 - 390

    

20. Some research ideas on Journal Impact Factors as a crucial topic in science dynamics

    Authors

    • Juan Miguel Campanario

    • Content type: BriefCommunication
    • Published: 10 February 2012

    • Pages: 293 - 295

21. The effect of several versions of one and the same manuscript published by a journal on its journal impact factor

    Authors

    • Lutz Bornmann
    • Werner Marx

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 10 February 2012

    • Pages: 277 - 279

22. Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF

    Authors

    • A. I. Pudovkin
    • Eugene Garfield

    • Content type: BriefCommunication
    • Published: 09 February 2012

    • Pages: 409 - 412

23. Updating the journal impact factor or total overhaul?

    Authors

    • Ronald Rousseau

    • Content type: BriefCommunication
    • Published: 03 February 2012

    • Pages: 413 - 417

24. Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors

    Authors

    • Alexandru T. Balaban

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 26 January 2012

    • Pages: 241 - 247

25. The impact factor: its place in Garfield’s thought, in science evaluation, and in library collection management

    Authors

    • Stephen J. Bensman

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 31 December 2011

    • Pages: 263 - 275

26. To cite or not to cite: author self-citations and the impact factor

    Authors

    • James Hartley

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 23 December 2011

    • Pages: 313 - 317

27. Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?

    Authors

    • Jerome K. Vanclay

    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 24 November 2011

    • Pages: 211 - 238