Paper Info
Title
The pragmatics of a diachronic journal impact factor
Abstract
With reference to Vanclay (Scientometrics in press, 2012) the paper argues for a pragmatic approach to the Thomson-Reuter's journal impact factor. The paper proposes and discusses to replace the current synchronous Thomson-Reuter journal impact factor by an up-to-date diachronic version (DJIF), consisting of a three-year citation window over a one year publication window. The DJIF online data collection and calculation is exemplified and compared to the present synchronous journal impact factor. The paper discusses briefly the dimensions of currency, robustness, understandability and comparability to other impact factors used in research evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11192-012-0701-1
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Journal impact factor,Diachronic impact factor,Synchronous JIF
Data science,Data collection,Data mining,Pragmatics,Computer science,Citation,Operations research,Robustness (computer science),Scientometrics,Comparability,Currency,Impact factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
92
2
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
PETER INGWERSEN12192291.28