Journal Impact Factor: Do the Numerator and Denominator Need Correction?
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Journal Impact Factor: Do the Numerator and Denominator Need Correction?
To correct the incongruence of document types between the numerator and denominator in the traditional impact factor (IF), we make a corresponding adjustment to its formula and present five corrective IFs: IFTotal/Total, IFTotal/AREL, IFAR/AR, IFAREL/AR, and IFAREL/AREL. Based on a survey of researchers in the fields of ophthalmology and mathematics, we obtained the real impact ranking of sampl...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151414