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Journal impact factor – Handle with care [PDF]
Biomedical Journal, 2016 Tanuj Kanchan, Kewal Krishan
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Evaluating Journal Impact Factor: a systematic survey of the pros and cons, and overview of alternative measures [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2020 Background: Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has several intrinsic flaws, which highlight its inability to adequately measure citation distributions or indicate journal quality.
Eugene Mech +5 more
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Comparing journals from different fields of science and social science through a JCR subject categories normalized impact factor [PDF]
, 2012 The journal Impact Factor (IF) is not comparable among fields of Science and Social Science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behaviour across disciplines.
Pablo Dorta‐González +1 more
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Bias in the journal impact factor
Scientometrics, 2007 The ISI journal impact factor (JIF) is based on a sample that may represent half the whole-of-life citations to some journals, but a small fraction (
C. Jennings +15 more
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Reliability of journal impact factor rankings [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2007 Background Journal impact factors and their ranks are used widely by journals, researchers, and research assessment exercises. Methods Based on citations to journals in research and experimental medicine in 2005, Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Greenwood Darren C
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Corruption of Journal Impact Factors [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006 Requiring authors to cite articles from the same journal in which they hope to publish is a practice that the Editors of all Trends journals disapprove of. Beyond pointing authors in the direction of papers that they might have missed and would improve the quality of their articles, we do not require authors to cite articles from our journals.
Anurag A. Agrawal
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McCall's Area Transformation versus the Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) [PDF]
, 2012 In a study entitled "Skewed Citation Distributions and Bias Factors: Solutions to two core problems with the journal impact factor," Mutz & Daniel (2012) propose (i) McCall's (1922) Area Transformation of the skewed citation distribution so that this ...
Leydesdorff, Loet
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Impact factor and journal standard
Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2015 A.M. AlMayouf
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