The impact of a journal on its community is usually judged based on its impact factor. Researchers often aim to publish their research findings at journals with high impact factors. Conversely, researchers tend to judge the quality of a conference based on its acceptance rate. However, it remains unknown if the low acceptance rate of a conference reflects a high impact on its community compared...

background citation analysis as one of the most widely used methods of bibliometrics can be used for computing the various impact measures for scholars based on data from citation databases. journal citation reports (jcr) from thomson reuters provides annual report in the form of impact factor (if) for each journal. objectives we aimed to evaluate the citation parameters of hepatitis monthly by...

We study the statistics of citations made to the indexed Science journals in the Journal Citation Reports during the period 2004-2013 using different measures. We consider different measures which quantify the impact of the journals. To our surprise, we find that the apparently uncorrelated measures, even when defined in an arbitrary manner, show strong correlations. This is checked over all th...