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Impact, and a journal impact factor People who use literature databases have two principal purposes. One, the original and still the primary function of citation indices and a core part of research practice, is to find
Reproducibility One of the biggest caveats with Impact Factors is the difficulty of reproducing this crucial indicator. When a researcher tries to reproduce this indicator, the number of citations downloaded from Web of Science
, we extend our research into the scientometrics of Neglected Tropical Zoonoses by comparing the impact factors and number of citations of papers on Neglected Tropical Zoonoses and conditions with a matched global health impact. This is, we compare the
, citations to journals and impact factors, and tested their compliance with Benford's law. Method We studied the number of articles published, citations received and impact factors of all journals indexed in the Science Citation
Introduction In earlier studies, criticism on Journal Impact Factors was centered around a number of key problems when it comes to the famous Journal Impact Factors, produced annually by Thomson Reuters in their Journal
Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay's dilemma with TRIF
Comments on the paper by Jerome Vanclay
The paper by Vanclay ( 2012 ) is a discussion of problems considered many times before. The author is right in admitting that “those who find the ThomsonReuters impact factor (TRIF) useful don‘t bother to publish, while a minority of vocal
. Lopez-Cozar , E. D. Ruiz-Perez , R. Fernandez , V. M. 2002 Impact-Factor rewards affect Spanish research Nature 417
Introduction: Background Soon after bibliometric measures based on citation appeared, and first of all the Journal Impact Factor (Garfield 1972 ), it was recognized that these measures were dependent to disciplinary effects
Introduction Vanclay ( 2012 ) has written an extremely provocative article on the impact factor (IF), but—to borrow an analogy from his profession—he does not see the forest, in which IF exists, due to all the trees of error
Introduction In his paper published recently in Scientometrics, Vanclay ( 2012 ) heavily criticizes Thomson Reuters Co for the errors, inaccuracies and limitations which may be attributed to Journal Impact Factors (JIF). Be it
