Volume 92, Issue 2

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August 2012

Special Discussion Issue on Journal Impact Factors

Issue Editor:

Tibor Braun

29 articles in this issue

Editorial
Tibor Braun
EditorialNotes 04 May 2012 Pages: 207 - 208
Discussion Paper

Announcement 18 July 2012 Pages: 209 - 209
Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?
Jerome K. Vanclay
OriginalPaper 24 November 2011 Pages: 211 - 238
Comments on the Discussion Paper

Announcement 18 July 2012 Pages: 239 - 239
Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors
Alexandru T. Balaban
OriginalPaper 26 January 2012 Pages: 241 - 247
Journal report card
Judit Bar-Ilan
OriginalPaper 17 February 2012 Pages: 249 - 260
Erratum to: Journal report card
Judit Bar-Ilan
Erratum 22 June 2012 Pages: 261 - 261
The impact factor: its place in Garfield’s thought, in science evaluation, and in library collection management
Stephen J. Bensman
OriginalPaper 31 December 2011 Pages: 263 - 275
The effect of several versions of one and the same manuscript published by a journal on its journal impact factor
Lutz Bornmann
Werner Marx
OriginalPaper 10 February 2012 Pages: 277 - 279
What do the scientists think about the impact factor?
Gualberto Buela-Casal
Izabela Zych
OriginalPaper 22 February 2012 Pages: 281 - 292
Some research ideas on Journal Impact Factors as a crucial topic in science dynamics
Juan Miguel Campanario
BriefCommunication 10 February 2012 Pages: 293 - 295
The Impact Factor in non-English-speaking countries
Gregorio González-Alcaide
Juan Carlos Valderrama-Zurián
Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent
OriginalPaper 23 March 2012 Pages: 297 - 311
To cite or not to cite: author self-citations and the impact factor
James Hartley
OriginalPaper 23 December 2011 Pages: 313 - 317
The pragmatics of a diachronic journal impact factor
Peter Ingwersen
OriginalPaper 24 March 2012 Pages: 319 - 324
Grim tales about the impact factor and the h-index in the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports databases: reflections on Vanclay’s criticism
Peter Jacso
OriginalPaper 31 May 2012 Pages: 325 - 354
Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers
Loet Leydesdorff
OriginalPaper Open access 17 February 2012 Pages: 355 - 365
Citation-based metrics are appropriate tools in journal assessment provided that they are accurate and used in an informed way
Henk F. Moed
Lisa Colledge
Mayur Amin
OriginalPaper 25 March 2012 Pages: 367 - 376
The generalized propensity score methodology for estimating unbiased journal impact factors
Rüdiger Mutz
Hans-Dieter Daniel
OriginalPaper 17 February 2012 Pages: 377 - 390
Decades of progress, or the progress of decades?
Francis Narin
OriginalPaper 21 February 2012 Pages: 391 - 393
Comments on a critique of the Thomson Reuters journal impact factor
David A. Pendlebury
Jonathan Adams
OriginalPaper 15 March 2012 Pages: 395 - 401
Evaluating journal performance metrics
Gangan Prathap
OriginalPaper 13 April 2012 Pages: 403 - 408
Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF
A. I. Pudovkin
Eugene Garfield
BriefCommunication 09 February 2012 Pages: 409 - 412
Updating the journal impact factor or total overhaul?
Ronald Rousseau
BriefCommunication 03 February 2012 Pages: 413 - 417
Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research
Derek R. Smith
OriginalPaper 13 March 2012 Pages: 419 - 427
Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective
Mike Thelwall
OriginalPaper 29 February 2012 Pages: 429 - 441
Discussing some basic critique on Journal Impact Factors: revision of earlier comments
Thed van Leeuwen
OriginalPaper Open access 29 February 2012 Pages: 443 - 455
Properties of journal impact in relation to bibliometric research group performance indicators
Anthony F. J. van Raan
OriginalPaper Open access 25 April 2012 Pages: 457 - 469
The Garfield impact factor, one of the fundamental indicators in scientometrics
Péter Vinkler
OriginalPaper 29 February 2012 Pages: 471 - 483
The journal impact factor: angel, devil, or scapegoat? A comment on J.K. Vanclay’s article 2011
Michel Zitt
OriginalPaper 15 March 2012 Pages: 485 - 503

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