scholarly journals Inconsistencies of recently proposed citation impact indicators and how to avoid them

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 2062-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Citation Impact ◽  
Impact Indicators

Quantitative deconstruction of citation impact indicators

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 658-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Nederhof ◽  
M.S. Visser
Keyword(s):  
Citation Impact ◽  
Impact Indicators

scholarly journals A Correlation Analysis of Normalized Indicators of Citation

Publications ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kochetkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Factor Matrix ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
The One ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Impact

Recently, more and more countries are entering the global race for university competitiveness. On the one hand, global rankings are a convenient tool for quantitative analysis. On the other hand, their indicators are often difficult to quickly calculate and they often contradict each other. The author of this paper hoped to use widely available indicators for a quick analysis of the University’s publication strategy and opted for the normalized citation indicators available in the SciVal analytical tool, namely, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI). The author demonstrated the possibility of applying the correlation analysis to the impact indicators of a document and a journal on a sample of social and humanitarian fields at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR, “RUDN” in Russian). A dot diagram of university (or country) documents was used to form a two-factor matrix (SNIP and FWCI) that was further divided into four quadrants. Such an analysis illustrated the present situation in that discipline. An analysis of the RUDN university publications revealed problems and prospects in the development of social sciences and humanities. A serious problem observed was that high-quality results were often published in low-impact journals that narrowed the results’ potential audience and, accordingly, the number of citations. A particular attention was paid to the application of the results in practice.

scholarly journals A Correlation Analysis of Normalized Indicators of Citation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Kochetkov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
The Other ◽  
Publication Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Recently, more and more countries are entering the global race for university competitiveness. On the one hand, global rankings are a convenient tool for quantitative analysis. On the other hand, their indicators are often difficult to quickly calculate, they often contradict each other. We thought about using widely available indicators for a quick analysis of the University's publication strategy. We opted for the normalized citation indicators available in SciVal analytical tool, i.e. Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI). We have demonstrated the possibility of applying the correlation analysis to the impact indicators of a document and a journal on the sample of the social and humanitarian fields at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Particular attention was paid to the application of the results in practice.

scholarly journals The significance of citation impact indicators of research performance in the developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Japhet Bakuwa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Region ◽  
Isi Web Of Science ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Sub Saharan

This paper argues that Sub-Saharan Africa needs to produce more journals indexed by ISI Web of Science (WoS). Researchers from the region should also publish in other ISI indexed, reputable and high impact journals such as Nature and Science. Inevitably, this will make Sub-Saharan African researchers visible and globally competitive. The Sub- Saharan African region has only about 40 journals out of over 12 000 journals that have been indexed by the ISI Web of Science (WoS). Arguably, ranking of universities across the globe and qualification for Nobel Prizes are determined by metrics-based evaluation of research performance. Sub-Saharan Africa is poorly represented on the world university rankings. The region has also produced only six Nobel Prize award winners from 1901 to 2010. In the same period, USA, UK and Germany produced 326, 116 and 102 recipients respectively. While there are some limitations on the use of citation indicators to evaluate research output, this researcher argues that citation impact indicators of research performance provide policymakers, researchers and funding agencies with an objective measure for assessing research performance and therefore are of great significance in the developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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