Correction to “Impact Factor, CiteScore, and Citation Analysis”

Pharmaceuticals: Impact Factor or CiteScore™

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the more publication, the higher impact factor: citation analysis of top nine gastroenterology and hepatology journals

background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

Social influence and peer review - impact factor and citation.

I read with interest Daniel Fisher and Nikolaos Parisis’ [1] analysis of the peerreview process and how it influences the career of scientists, and I agree with many points raised by authors. I would like to add another point to their arguments, namely how impact factor and number of citations can fail to reflect the originality of work and thus might influence the career of scientists, particu...

Erratum: Correction to Citation of Table 4

Citation analysis of orthopaedic literature; 18 major orthopaedic journals compared for Impact Factor and SCImago

BACKGROUND One of the disadvantages of the Impact Factor (IF) is self-citation. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator excludes self-citations and considers the quality, rather than absolute numbers, of citations of a journal by other journals. The present study re-evaluated the influence of self-citation on the 2007 IF for 18 major orthopaedic journals and investigated the difference in rank...