Introducing a bibliometric index based on factor analysis

Abstract This work applies a factor analysis with VARIMAX rotation to develop bibliometric indicator, named the Weighted Factor Index, in order derive new classification for journals belonging certain category, alternative one provided by Journal Impact Factor. For this, 16 metrics from three different databases (Web of Science, Scopus and SCImago Rank) are considered. The Weighed Index entails advantage incorporating summarizing information all indicators; so as test its performance, it was applied rank category Information Science & Library .