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The study discusses the necessity to analyze the influence of theoretical and empirical types of journal articles on the citation impact of Spanish psychology journals. Three of the most representative Spanish psychology journals were selected for the purposes of this study: Papeles del Psicólogo, Análisis y Modificación de Conducta and Psicothema. Twenty-three psychology journals in Spanish were used as source journals. Altogether, there were sixty-seven issues reviewed for the references and ninety-three issues for the articles. The bibliometricanalysis was conducted by six highly trained psychologists. The results demonstrated differences regarding the percentages of empirical and theoretical articles published in the three examined journals and the number of citations received by them based on the article type. When normalizing the results according to the number of theoretical and empirical articles that were published, it becomes evident that the theoretical articles receive on average twice as many references as the empirical ones. We discuss the importance of this effect on the comparison of journals based on their citation impact and show the evidence that it is only valid to compare journals which publish a similar percentage of theoretical and empirical articles.
We are glad to announce that the latest Journal Impact Factor (JIF) scores are now available for our indexed journals. These scores provide insight into the mean number of occasions an article from a particular journal (published between 2020
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Introduction The journal impact factor (JIF) is one of the most widely discussed scientometric indicators. Journal editors are very much concerned with the impact factor of their journal and of competing journals, because they
). Most notably, the ranking of scientific journals according to their citation impact proved an everlasting story. It is not only the most commonly used ISI Impact Factor as such that is in dispute; also the general question of how journal performance and
