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Impact factors 2007 available
The impact factors and other journal data for 2007 are made available by Thomson Reuters. You will find these figure in the Journal Citation Reports. There are about 251 journals extra that are been l… more →
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A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures
Steve wrote 5 days ago: “The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. … more →
Journal Citation Reports Data for 2008 now available
Eliz wrote 1 week ago: Identify the most influential journals and papers in your field by searching Web of Knowledge’ … more →
[Book Chapter]: Impact factors - the basics
davidtancw wrote 1 month ago: This is a book chapter on impact factor. Any academic or individual researcher who wants to publish … more →
In the Shadow of Bibliometric Analysis
gazjjohnson wrote 3 months ago: As anyone who’s following me on Twitter knows, the last week or so has been rather dominated b … more →
Enhancement to ISI Journal Citation Reports
Debbie Phillips wrote 4 months ago: There has recently been an upgrade to the ISI Journal Citation Reports service. You can read their p … more →
Enhancement to ISI Journal Citation Reports
Debbie Phillips wrote 4 months ago: There has recently been an upgrade to the ISI Journal Citation Reports service. You can read their p … more →
Journal Citation Reports - upgrade
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Eliz wrote 4 months ago: Recently there was a major upgrade of ISI’s Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in … more →
Analyzing the Impact of an Author's Publications
annewelsh wrote 9 months ago: Rooting around in some citation analysis papers, I’ve come across a neat synopsis of the issue … more →
Why Cite?
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annewelsh wrote 10 months ago: Christina Pikas provides a neat summary of motivations to cite [*], based on an article by Nicolaise … more →
Impact of Citation Practices
annewelsh wrote 10 months ago: The current issue of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery includes a nice, short overview … more →
Report warns against over-reliance on citation statistics
Eliz wrote 11 months ago: A new report urges caution against the over-reliance on citation statistics such as impact factors. … more →
Impact factors 2007 available
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Jens De Groot wrote 1 year ago: The impact factors and other journal data for 2007 are made available by Thomson Reuters. You will f … more →
Differences in Impact Factor Across Fields and Over Time
lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/dwp/2008-4-23/ ABSTRACT: The impact factor of an academic jou … more →
An alternative for impact factors
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Jens De Groot wrote 1 year ago: Every year Thomson Scientific - last week renamed as Thomson Reuters – publishes the new impac … more →
"Better than impact factor?"
lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: http://chronicle.com/news/article/4050/better-than-the-impact-factor Researchers at Northwestern Uni … more →
Newsflash: impact factors are rubbish
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nsaunders wrote 1 year ago: Well duh. Another year, another round of discussion on these flawed, useless outdated metrics. JCB … more →
Journal impact factors - 2006 data now available
Katharine Thompson wrote 1 year ago: We are pleased to announce that the year 2006 data for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the ISI We … more →
Journal citation reports 2006 data now available
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Katharine Thompson wrote 1 year ago: We are pleased to announce that the year 2006 data for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the ISI We … more →
New Impact Factors 2006
Jens De Groot wrote 2 years ago: Thomson Scientific has released the impact factors of 2006. Check them out at Journal Citation Repor … more →
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