Scientometrics
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Volume 89: Issue 1
Behind citing-side normalization of citations: some properties of the journal impact factor
Author:
M. Zitt Lereco U-1134, SAE2 Department, INRA, Nantes, France
Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), Paris, France

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Pages:
329–344
Online Publication Date:
09 Aug 2011
Publication Date:
01 Oct 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0441-7
Keywords:
Impact factor; Citation; Citation normalization; Citing-side normalization; Source-level normalization
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Abstract

A new family of citation normalization methods appeared recently, in addition to the classical methods of “cited-side” normalization and the iterative measures of intellectual influence in the wake of Pinski and Narin influence weights. These methods have a quite global scope in citation analysis but were first applied to the journal impact, in the experimental Audience Factor (AF) and the Scopus Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP). Analyzing some properties of the Garfield's Journal Impact Factor, this note highlights the rationale of citing-side (or source-level, fractional citation, ex ante) normalization.

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