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Title: Journal topic citation potential and between-field comparisons: The topic normalized impact factor
Authors: Dorta González, Pablo 
Dorta González,María Isabel 
Santos Peñate, Dolores Rosa 
Suárez Vega, Rafael Ricardo 
UNESCO Clasification: 570106 Documentación
Keywords: Factor de impacto
Infometría
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: 1751-1577
Journal: Journal of Informetrics 
Abstract: The journal impact factor is not comparable among fields of science and social science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behavior 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 to make it comparable between scientific fields. An empirical application comparing some impact indicators with our topic normalized impact factor 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 analyzed. The effect of journal self-citations over the normalization process is also studied
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/47418
ISSN: 1751-1577
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.013
Source: Journal of Informetrics[ISSN 1751-1577],v. 8, p. 406-418
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