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M.J. Ali (2022): Questioning the impact of the impact factor. A brief review and future directions. In PDF, Seminars in Ophthalmology. See also here.
K. Antelman (2004):
Do
open-access articles have a greater research impact? Open access, Coll. Res.
Libr., 65: 372-382.
"... The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do
have a greater research impact. ..."
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É. Archambault and V. Larivière (2009):
History
of the journal impact factor: Contingencies and consequences. In PDF,
Scientometrics.
Website outdated, download a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
J.R.F. Arruda et al. (2016): The Journal Impact Factor and its discontents: steps toward responsible metrics and better research assessment. Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 1.
! BiologyBrowser (produced by Thomson Scientific). This is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.
Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel: Journal Status PDF file; Scientometrics, volume 69, number 3, pp. 669-687, 2006.
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M. Bordons et al. (2002):
Advantages
and limitations in the use of impact factor measures for the assessment of research performance. In PDF,
Scientometrics, 53: 195–206.
See also
here.
K. Bosse and G. Beyer (2014), in German:
Dr.
Fantastic.
ZEIT Campus, 6. See especially:
Was
ist der "impact factor"?
Was
bedeutet Open Access?
Was
bringt "Research Gate"?
! Declan Butler, nature news (2008): Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market. Database offers on-the-fly results.
A. Casadevall et al. (2016): ASM journals eliminate impact factor information from journal websites. Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 29.
Citizendium (an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge): Journal impact factor.
B. Crew (2019): Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2019. From Nature Index, a database of author affiliation information, collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 82 high-quality science journals.
! R. Dhar et al. (2022): The problem with APC and open access: Hurdles in publishing practice. Free access, Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 13. See also here (in PDF).
F. Dodds (2018):
The
changing copyright landscape in academic publishing. Open access,
Learned Publishing, 31: 270-275.
"... This article marks the publication of the Tenth edition Clark’s Publishing Agreements:
A book of precedents
[...] Academics continue to agree standard assignment contracts even where they
disagree with the principles
[...] There is a complex range of researchers’ attitudes to copyright issues ..."
P. Dong et al. (2005):
The
"impact factor" revisited. Free access,
Biomedical Digital Libraries, 2.
"... This narrative review explains how the IF is calculated, how bias is introduced
into the calculation, which questions the IF can or cannot answer, and how different
professional groups
can benefit from IF use. ..."
! Eigenfactor.org (maintained by Carl and Ted Bergstrom, Department of Biology, University of Washington). Eigenfactor is a rating of the importance of a scientific journal, comparable to Google´s Pagerank algorithm. Eigenfactor.org (containing 115,000 reference items) also reports journal prices as well as citation influence. Excellent!
GeoZentrum
Nordbayern, Erlangen:
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Journals
for Paleontological Research.
Peer-reviewed journals are listed
by their impact factors and CiteScore Index on popular demand. Excellent!
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E. Garfield (2006):
The
history and meaning of the journal impact factor.
JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association, 295: 90-93.
See also
here.
! E. Garfield (1999): Journal impact factor: a brief review. Free access, CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), 161: 979-980.
E. Garfield (1994): The Thomson Reuters Impact Factor. Provided by Clarivate.
Harvard College Library:
Searching
the Citation Indexes (Web of Science).
Now provided by the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
! Anne-Wil Harzing: Publish or Perish. This is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the citations. See also here.
Library, University of Heidelberg: Impact Factor. An annotated link list (in German).
Library, Hunter College:
Research Guide for Graduate Science Students,
Journal
Rankings.
Provided by the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
W. Kiessling et al. (2010): German Paleontology in the early 21st century. In PDF, Palaeontologia Electronica, 13.
P. Kraker and E. Lex (2015): A critical look at the ResearchGate score as a measure of scientific reputation. In PDF.
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V. Lariviere and C.R. Sugimoto (2019):
The
journal impact factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects. In PDF,
Springer handbook of science and technology Indicators, pp 3–24.
See also
here.
"... The inflation of the JIF [Journal Impact Factor} and the weakening predictive power is discussed,
as well as the adverse effects on the behaviors of individual actors
[...] the JIF will likely remain part of the research ecosystem and as long as journals remain the
primary mechanism for diffusing new knowledge,
their reputation. ..."
! John Lavas, University Library, The University of Auckland:
Journal
Ranking for Biological and Marine Sciences.
The purpose of this page is to give an explanation of the various methods which have
been used to rank scientific journals.
This expired link is available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
P.A. Lawrence (2007): The Mismeasurement of Science. Open access, Current Biology, 17. See also here (PDF file).
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E.C. McKiernan et al. (2019):
Use
of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. In PDF,
eLife, 8: e47338.
See also
here.
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E.C. McKiernan et al. (2016):
How
open science helps researchers succeed.
elife.
"... We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention,
potential collaborators, job opportunities and funding opportunities.
These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional
closed practices ..."
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L. Meho and K. Yang (2007):
Impact
of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science
versus Scopus and Google Scholar. In PDF,
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58: 2105-2125.
See also
here.
"... Results show that Scopus significantly alters the relative ranking of those
scholars that appear in the middle of the rankings and that GS [Google Scholar] stands
out in its coverage of conference proceedings as well as international,
non-English language journals. The use of Scopus and GS, in addition
to WoS [Web of Science], helps reveal a more accurate and comprehensive picture of the scholarly
impact of authors. ..."
Library, University of Melbourne: Journal Impact resources. Tools to measure journal impact.
S.K. Mishra, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: Does the Journal Impact Factor help make a Good Indicator of Academic Performance? PDF file.
OMICS International
(an amalgamation of Open Access Publications and worldwide international science conferences and events):
Open
Access Journals Impact Factors. See especially:
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Geology & Earth Science Journals.
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Plant Sciences
Journals.
PLOS (The Public Library of Science), San Francisco, California, USA.
A nonprofit organization to accelerate progress in science.
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W.R. Riedel et al. (2006): Moving Fingers: Coming of Age: ISI & Googling. In PDF, Palaeontologia Electronica, 9.
D.H. Schunk and, P.A. Ertmer (1999): Self-regulation and academic learning: Self-efficacy enhancing interventions. In PDF.
! P.O. Seglen (1997): Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. In PDF, BMJ, 314: 498-502.
! Science Gateway: High Impact Journals. Go to: Journals Ranked by Impact: Geology, Paleontology, and Plant Sciences.
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M. Thelwall et al. (2023):
In
which fields are citations indicators of research quality? Open access,
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74, C1: 883-1045.
"... Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to support or
replace human peer review and for lists of top cited papers
[...] We report the first large-scale science-wide academic
evaluation of the relationship between research quality and citations
[...] We also show for the first time that no field has a citation threshold beyond which all
articles are excellent quality, so lists of top cited articles are not pure collections
of excellence, and neither is any top citation percentile indicator ..."
! Thomson.com: The ISI Impact Factor. Go to: Journal Citation Reports. Journal performance metrics, including impact factor. See also: Science Citation Index Expanded. You can view a list of all journals covered in a specific category or find a specific journal by title, title words, or ISSN.
The Washington Post:
Impact factor 911 is a joke
(by Andrew Gelman, 2013).
! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Impact factor.
Web of Science.
Web of Science (in German).
Eugene Garfield.
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