Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences

The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Chang, Chia-Lin, McAleer, Michael
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/41560
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41560
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Research assessment measures
Impact factors
Eigenfactor
Article Influence
Quality weighted citations
Total citations
Index of citations quality
Journal rankings.
Econometría (Economía)
5302 Econometría
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Sumario:The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations. The new index is used to analyse the leading 500 journals in both the Sciences and Social Sciences using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs) that are based on alternative transformations of citations. It is shown that ICQ is a useful additional measure to 2YIF and other well known RAMs for the purpose of evaluating the impact and quality, as well as ranking, of journals as it contains information that has very low correlations with the information contained in the well known RAMs for both the Sciences and Social Sciences.