The number of times that a published article is cited is one indicator of its scientific impact.
An article is termed a “Citation Classic” once it has accumulated more than 400 citations …

This paper investigates the extent to which the outcomes of the 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise in the UK, determined by peer review, can be explained by a set of quantitative …

Quantifying and comparing the scientific output of researchers has become critical for
governments, funding agencies and universities. Comparison by reputation and direct …

Rankings of scholarly journals based on citation data are often met with scepticism by the
scientific community. Part of the scepticism is due to disparity between the common …

A broad-scale quantification of the measure of quality for scholarship is under way. This
trend has fundamental implications for the future of academic publishing and employment. In …

This study aims to explore the effects of both journal self citations and mutual citations within
a group of journals on the increase in the impact factors (IFs) for social sciences journals …

The time evolution of mean received citations is calculated on a sample of journals from two
ISI subject categories (“Chemistry, multidisciplinary”, ISI Science Edition, and …

Piśmiennictwo na temat wskaźnika oddziaływania (impact factor, IF) jest obfite, a liczba
publikacji na ten temat rośnie. Przedstawiają one sposoby i przykłady niewłaściwego …

Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal
comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of …

This paper investigates impact factor as a metric for ranking the quality of journal outlets for
operations management (OM) research. We review all prior studies that assessed journal …