Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence

This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Scie...

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Autores: Chang, Chia-Lin, McAleer, Michael, Oxley, Les
Tipo de documento: relatório científico
Data de publicação:2013
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
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Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41462
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:A12
Journal performance metrics
Coercive journal self citations
Research assessment measures
Total citations
5-year impact factor (5YIF)
Eigenfactor
Journal influence
Article influence.
Econometría (Economía)
Gestión de la información
5302 Econometría
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spelling Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article InfluenceChang, Chia-LinMcAleer, MichaelOxley, LesA12Journal performance metricsCoercive journal self citationsResearch assessment measuresTotal citations5-year impact factor (5YIF)EigenfactorJournal influenceArticle influence.Econometría (Economía)Gestión de la información5302 EconometríaThis paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (hereafter ISI) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences. The paper also compares the two new bibliometric measures with two existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-year Impact Factor (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a journal. It is shown that the Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the strength of the relationship of journal performance metrics, although the actual relationships are very similar. Moreover, the journal influence and article influence journal performance metrics are shown to be closely related empirically to the two existing ISI metrics, and hence add little in practical usefulness to what is already known, except for eliminating the pressure arising from coercive journal self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics literature.Universidad Complutense de Madrid20132013-03-0120132013-03-01technical reporthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18ghinfo:eu-repo/semantics/reportapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41462reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 Españahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/414622026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
title Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
spellingShingle Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
Chang, Chia-Lin
A12
Journal performance metrics
Coercive journal self citations
Research assessment measures
Total citations
5-year impact factor (5YIF)
Eigenfactor
Journal influence
Article influence.
Econometría (Economía)
Gestión de la información
5302 Econometría
title_short Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
title_full Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
title_fullStr Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
title_full_unstemmed Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
title_sort Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Chang, Chia-Lin
McAleer, Michael
Oxley, Les
author Chang, Chia-Lin
author_facet Chang, Chia-Lin
McAleer, Michael
Oxley, Les
author_role author
author2 McAleer, Michael
Oxley, Les
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv A12
Journal performance metrics
Coercive journal self citations
Research assessment measures
Total citations
5-year impact factor (5YIF)
Eigenfactor
Journal influence
Article influence.
Econometría (Economía)
Gestión de la información
5302 Econometría
topic A12
Journal performance metrics
Coercive journal self citations
Research assessment measures
Total citations
5-year impact factor (5YIF)
Eigenfactor
Journal influence
Article influence.
Econometría (Economía)
Gestión de la información
5302 Econometría
description This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (hereafter ISI) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences. The paper also compares the two new bibliometric measures with two existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-year Impact Factor (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a journal. It is shown that the Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the strength of the relationship of journal performance metrics, although the actual relationships are very similar. Moreover, the journal influence and article influence journal performance metrics are shown to be closely related empirically to the two existing ISI metrics, and hence add little in practical usefulness to what is already known, except for eliminating the pressure arising from coercive journal self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics literature.
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