Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank

Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank

Most researchers acknowledge an intrinsic hierarchy in the scholarly journals ("journal rank") that they submit their work to, and adjust not only their submission but also their reading strategies accordingly. On the other hand, much has been written about the negative effects of institutionalizing journal rank as an impact measure. So far, contributions to the debate concerning the limitation...

Unintended Consequences.

Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor.

The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the "quality" of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and the...

Impact factors and the law of unintended consequences.

At the last annual meeting of the International Academy of Nursing Editors, held in July, Dr. Margaret Freda reported on progress made in getting the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to include more nursing journals in its rankings. At the moment, CINAHL lists 547 nursing journals, only 39 of which are ranked by the ISI, and these generally have low impact factors. Does this mean that...

Google Scholar journal metrics: Comparison with impact factor and SCImago journal rank indicator for nuclear medicine journals

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....