Bibliometric Rankings of Journals Based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database

Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among others, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Chang, Chia-Lin, McAleer, Michael
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/27531
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/27531
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:C18
C81
Y10
Research assessment measures
Impact factors
Bibliometric measures.
Econometría (Economía)
5302 Econometría
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Sumario:Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among others, the celebrated Impact Factor. However, there are numerous bibliometric measures, also known as research assessment measures, based on the Thomson Reuters citations database, but they do not all seem to have been collected in a single source. The purpose of this paper is to present, define and compare the 16 most well-known Thomson Reuters bibliometric measures in a single source. It is important that the existing bibliometric measures be presented in any rankings papers as alternative bibliometric measures based on the Thomson Reuters citations database can and do produce different rankings, as has been documented in a number of papers in the bibliometrics literature.