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Impact Factor


M.J. Ali (2022): Questioning the impact of the impact factor. A brief review and future directions. In PDF, Seminars in Ophthalmology. See also here.

K. Antelman (2004): Do open-access articles have a greater research impact? Open access, Coll. Res. Libr., 65: 372-382.
"... The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. ..."

! É. Archambault and V. Larivière (2009): History of the journal impact factor: Contingencies and consequences. In PDF, Scientometrics.
Website outdated, download a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

J.R.F. Arruda et al. (2016): The Journal Impact Factor and its discontents: steps toward responsible metrics and better research assessment. Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 1.

! BiologyBrowser (produced by Thomson Scientific). This is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.

Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel: Journal Status PDF file; Scientometrics, volume 69, number 3, pp. 669-687, 2006.

! M. Bordons et al. (2002): Advantages and limitations in the use of impact factor measures for the assessment of research performance. In PDF, Scientometrics, 53: 195–206.
See also here.

K. Bosse and G. Beyer (2014), in German: Dr. Fantastic. ZEIT Campus, 6. See especially:
Was ist der "impact factor"?
Was bedeutet Open Access?
Was bringt "Research Gate"?

! Declan Butler, nature news (2008): Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market. Database offers on-the-fly results.

A. Casadevall et al. (2016): ASM journals eliminate impact factor information from journal websites. Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 29.

Citizendium (an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge): Journal impact factor.

B. Crew (2019): Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2019. From Nature Index, a database of author affiliation information, collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 82 high-quality science journals.

! R. Dhar et al. (2022): The problem with APC and open access: Hurdles in publishing practice. Free access, Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 13. See also here (in PDF).

F. Dodds (2018): The changing copyright landscape in academic publishing. Open access, Learned Publishing, 31: 270-275.
"... This article marks the publication of the Tenth edition Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A book of precedents
[...] Academics continue to agree standard assignment contracts even where they disagree with the principles
[...] There is a complex range of researchers’ attitudes to copyright issues ..."

P. Dong et al. (2005): The "impact factor" revisited. Free access, Biomedical Digital Libraries, 2.
"... This narrative review explains how the IF is calculated, how bias is introduced into the calculation, which questions the IF can or cannot answer, and how different professional groups can benefit from IF use. ..."

! Eigenfactor.org (maintained by Carl and Ted Bergstrom, Department of Biology, University of Washington). Eigenfactor is a rating of the importance of a scientific journal, comparable to Google´s Pagerank algorithm. Eigenfactor.org (containing 115,000 reference items) also reports journal prices as well as citation influence. Excellent!

GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen:
! Journals for Paleontological Research. Peer-reviewed journals are listed by their impact factors and CiteScore Index on popular demand. Excellent!

! E. Garfield (2006): The history and meaning of the journal impact factor. JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association, 295: 90-93.
See also here.

! E. Garfield (1999): Journal impact factor: a brief review. Free access, CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), 161: 979-980.

E. Garfield (1994): The Thomson Reuters Impact Factor. Provided by Clarivate.

Harvard College Library: Searching the Citation Indexes (Web of Science).
Now provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! Anne-Wil Harzing: Publish or Perish. This is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the citations. See also here.

Library, University of Heidelberg: Impact Factor. An annotated link list (in German).

Library, Hunter College: Research Guide for Graduate Science Students, Journal Rankings.
Provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

W. Kiessling et al. (2010): German Paleontology in the early 21st century. In PDF, Palaeontologia Electronica, 13.

P. Kraker and E. Lex (2015): A critical look at the ResearchGate score as a measure of scientific reputation. In PDF.

! V. Lariviere and C.R. Sugimoto (2019): The journal impact factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects. In PDF, Springer handbook of science and technology Indicators, pp 3–24.
See also here.
"... The inflation of the JIF [Journal Impact Factor} and the weakening predictive power is discussed, as well as the adverse effects on the behaviors of individual actors
[...] the JIF will likely remain part of the research ecosystem and as long as journals remain the primary mechanism for diffusing new knowledge, their reputation. ..."

! John Lavas, University Library, The University of Auckland: Journal Ranking for Biological and Marine Sciences. The purpose of this page is to give an explanation of the various methods which have been used to rank scientific journals.
This expired link is available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

P.A. Lawrence (2007): The Mismeasurement of Science. Open access, Current Biology, 17. See also here (PDF file).

! E.C. McKiernan et al. (2019): Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. In PDF, eLife, 8: e47338.
See also here.

! E.C. McKiernan et al. (2016): How open science helps researchers succeed. elife.
"... We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities and funding opportunities. These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional closed practices ..."

! L. Meho and K. Yang (2007): Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar. In PDF, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58: 2105-2125. See also here.
"... Results show that Scopus significantly alters the relative ranking of those scholars that appear in the middle of the rankings and that GS [Google Scholar] stands out in its coverage of conference proceedings as well as international, non-English language journals. The use of Scopus and GS, in addition to WoS [Web of Science], helps reveal a more accurate and comprehensive picture of the scholarly impact of authors. ..."

Library, University of Melbourne: Journal Impact resources. Tools to measure journal impact.

S.K. Mishra, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: Does the Journal Impact Factor help make a Good Indicator of Academic Performance? PDF file.

OMICS International (an amalgamation of Open Access Publications and worldwide international science conferences and events):
Open Access Journals Impact Factors. See especially:
! Geology & Earth Science Journals.
! Plant Sciences Journals.

PLOS (The Public Library of Science), San Francisco, California, USA. A nonprofit organization to accelerate progress in science.
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W.R. Riedel et al. (2006): Moving Fingers: Coming of Age: ISI & Googling. In PDF, Palaeontologia Electronica, 9.

D.H. Schunk and, P.A. Ertmer (1999): Self-regulation and academic learning: Self-efficacy enhancing interventions. In PDF.

! P.O. Seglen (1997): Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. In PDF, BMJ, 314: 498-502.

! Science Gateway: High Impact Journals. Go to: Journals Ranked by Impact: Geology, Paleontology, and Plant Sciences.

Springer Open:
Impact factor.

! M. Thelwall et al. (2023): In which fields are citations indicators of research quality? Open access, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74, C1: 883-1045.
"... Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to support or replace human peer review and for lists of top cited papers
[...] We report the first large-scale science-wide academic evaluation of the relationship between research quality and citations
[...] We also show for the first time that no field has a citation threshold beyond which all articles are excellent quality, so lists of top cited articles are not pure collections of excellence, and neither is any top citation percentile indicator ..."

! Thomson Reuters

! Thomson.com: The ISI Impact Factor. Go to: Journal Citation Reports. Journal performance metrics, including impact factor. See also: Science Citation Index Expanded. You can view a list of all journals covered in a specific category or find a specific journal by title, title words, or ISSN.

The Washington Post:
Impact factor 911 is a joke (by Andrew Gelman, 2013).

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Impact factor.
Web of Science.
Web of Science (in German).
Eugene Garfield.








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