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The topic normalized impact factor

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Título

The topic normalized impact factor

Autoría

Dorta-González, Pablo
Dorta-González, María Isabel

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Fecha

2015

Fecha de entrega

2015-07-08T13:17:06Z

Descripción

[EN] The journal impact factor is not comparable among fields of 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 citation potential in the normalization of the journal impact factor. An empirical application in a set of 224 journals from four different fields shows that our normalization, using the citation potential in the journal topic, reduces the between-group variance with respect to the within-group variance in a higher proportion than the rest of indicators analysed.


Palabras clave

journal assessment; journal metric; bibliometric indicator; citation analysis; journal impact factor; source normalization; citation potential.

Fuente

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & informetrics

Derechos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess