Paper Info
Title
Can the technological impact of academic journals be evaluated? The practice of non-patent reference (NPR) analysis
Abstract
Journal rankings and journal ratings are important to governments, research institutes, and scientific research in general, and they frequently serve as the criteria for evaluating research performance to determine whether specific researchers will receive promotions and/or earn research grants. However, the only widely adopted journal assessment method is known as impact factor (IF), which focuses on citations in academic journals. However, IF disregards the technological applications and value of academic journals. In this article, we propose a method to rank academic journals that utilizes non-patent references in patent documents. We also compare the differences between journal rankings derived by using IF with those derived from the Intellectual Property Citation Index (IPCI) across different fields; moreover, some fields contain positive and significant correlations between IF and the IPCI. The results of this study offer a new perspective from which to assess the technological value of academic journals, particularly those in the technological and scientific fields. This study considers linkages among science and technology and the needs of the stakeholders in journal assessment to shed light on journal assessment and journal ranking methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11192-014-1337-0
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Non-patent reference,Journal ranking,Impact factor
Data mining,Public relations,Computer science,Journal ranking,Citation index,Intellectual property,Scientific method,Impact factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
101
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
33
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Ching Liaw130.38
Te Yi Chan230.38
Chin-Yuan Fan347328.27
Cheng-hsin Chiang417911.96