Journals in the " Information Science and Library Science " category of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were compared using both bibliometric and bibliographic features. Data collected covered: journal impact factor, number of issues per year, number of authors per paper, longevity, editorial board membership, frequency of publication, number of databases indexing the journal, number of aggregat...

The journal impact factor is not comparable among fields of science and social science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behaviour across disciplines. In this work, a source normalization of the journal impact factor is proposed. We use the aggregate impact factor of the citing journals as a measure of the citation potential in the journal topic, and we employ this c...

The impact factor and other bibliometric indicators are currently utilized in most countries to evaluate institutions, scientific research, entire journals, and individual articles. This article addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the impact factor and its application. The impact factor’s origin and methods of calculating it are examined. Also, discussed are the effects ...

This paper examines the relationships between the journal impact factor and the h-type indices in virology journals. The virology journals and their 2010 journal impact factors were retrieved from Journal Citation Reports. The h-index and the g-index values of the journals for 2007-2011 were obtained from Web of Science and Google Scholar. The journals were ranked by their journal impact factor...

Nowadays impact factor is the significant indicator for journal evaluation. In impact factor’s calculation is used number of all citations to journal, regardless of the prestige of cited journals, however, scientific units (paper, researcher, journal or scientific organization) cited by journals with high impact factor or researchers with high Hirsch index are more important than objects cited ...

The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact in general, and in Economics, in particular, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). The paper analyses 299 leading international journals in Economics using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), and highlights the similarities and differences...

We propose a new metric and data source to assess journal impact in the field of Economics & Business. The metric – Hirsch’s h-index – improves on the traditionally used ISI Journal Impact Factor by providing a more robust and less time-sensitive measure of journal impact. The data source – Google Scholar – provides a more comprehensive coverage of citations than ISI, including citations in boo...

The ultimate goal of research in medicine, a spectrum starting with basic biomedical research via clinical trials to implementation research, is to improve the health and the quality of life of individuals and communities. Research should therefore be of the very best quality and assessment of its quality is important. Traditionally, research and researchers are evaluated by means of the ‘scien...