دورية أكاديمية

Journal Impact Factor: Do the Numerator and Denominator Need Correction?

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Journal Impact Factor: Do the Numerator and Denominator Need Correction?
المؤلفون: Xue-Li Liu, Shuang-Shuang Gai, Jing Zhou
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 3, p e0151414 (2016)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: To correct the incongruence of document types between the numerator and denominator in the traditional impact factor (IF), we make a corresponding adjustment to its formula and present five corrective IFs: IFTotal/Total, IFTotal/AREL, IFAR/AR, IFAREL/AR, and IFAREL/AREL. Based on a survey of researchers in the fields of ophthalmology and mathematics, we obtained the real impact ranking of sample journals in the minds of peer experts. The correlations between various IFs and questionnaire score were analyzed to verify their journal evaluation effects. The results show that it is scientific and reasonable to use five corrective IFs for journal evaluation for both ophthalmology and mathematics. For ophthalmology, the journal evaluation effects of the five corrective IFs are superior than those of traditional IF: the corrective effect of IFAR/AR is the best, IFAREL/AR is better than IFTotal/Total, followed by IFTotal/AREL, and IFAREL/AREL. For mathematics, the journal evaluation effect of traditional IF is superior than those of the five corrective IFs: the corrective effect of IFTotal/Total is best, IFAREL/AR is better than IFTotal/AREL and IFAREL/AREL, and the corrective effect of IFAR/AR is the worst. In conclusion, not all disciplinary journal IF need correction. The results in the current paper show that to correct the IF of ophthalmologic journals may be valuable, but it seems to be meaningless for mathematic journals.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4792445?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151414
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/49b5950add5d4c029720a47924d8f600
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.49b5950add5d4c029720a47924d8f600
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0151414