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| Title: | The topic normalized impact factor | Authors: | Dorta-González, Pablo Dorta-González, María Isabel |
UNESCO Clasification: | 120910 Teoría y técnicas de muestreo 120903 Análisis de datos 1202 Análisis y análisis funcional |
Keywords: | Journal assessment Journal metric Bibliometric indicator Citation analysis Journal impact factor, et al |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Abstract: | The journal impact factor is not comparable among fields of science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behaviour across disciplines. In this work, a source normalization of the journal impact factor is proposed. We use the aggregate impact factor of the citing journals as a measure of the citation potential in the journal topic, and we employ this citation potential in the normalization of the journal impact factor. An empirical application in a set of 224 journals from four different fields shows that our normalization, using the citation potential in the journal topic, reduces the between-group variance with respect to the within-group variance in a higher proportion than the rest of indicators analysed. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/13813 | Source: | Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & informetrics |
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