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science studies, and to new applications in librarianship, scholarly publishing and research assessment. The journal statistics Garfield explored became soon isolated from the study context. The journal impact factor, originally developed as a tool to
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occurence of self-citations was partly explained by intrinsic characteristics of research articles. I assessed the respective effect of the number of authors, length, and number of references of the articles, and the impact factor 1 of the journals in which
fairer” way. The most popular and widely used is the Institute of Scientific Information Scientist (ISI) derived journal impact factor (JIF), which is used to measure the influence or visibility of a journal (Sharma 2007 ; Franceshet 2010 ). Thompson
these issues are crucial to any analysis of the journal impact factor, or any other bibliometric measure. The recent paper by Vanclay ( 2012 ) shows in great detail the technical limitations of the impact factor, and the considerable challenge of
. In 1955, Dr Eugene Garfield proposed the concept of journal impact factor (JIF) for journal evaluation (Garfied 1955 ). In early 1960s, Eugene Garfield and Irving H. Sher began to use the JIF to help Science Citation Index (SCI) to select source
Introduction Vanclay ( 2012 ), which appears as a discussion paper in this special issue, has provocatively asked the question whether the journal impact factor is an outdated artefact or a step towards a more meaningful
extreme specialization of a journal may limit an article's exposure and result in a low-citation frequency (Van Dalen and Henkens 2001 ). The introduction of impact factors for journals, lends high-ranked journals to be perceived as high
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Impact Factor (IF) ( Archambault & Lariviére, 2009 ; Garfield, 2006 ). Since then, a number of other journal metrics have been developed in an attempt to address the limitations of the IF, such as inclusion of self-citations, limited time-period coverage
