The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor

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Bibliometric analysis: The main steps

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Large-Scale Analysis of the Accuracy of the Journal Classification Systems of Web of Science and Scopus

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A Further Step Forward in Measuring Journals’ Scientific Prestige: The SJR2 Indicator

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What causes a management article to be cited? Article, author or journal?

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Using publication metrics to highlight academic productivity and research impact

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The rise and rise of citation analysis

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Bibliometric indicators: opportunities and limits

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The strain on scientific publishing

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Differences in impact factor across fields and over time

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A Review of Literature on Evaluating the Scientific, Social and Political Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities Research

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Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints

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Measuring scientific impact beyond academia: An assessment of existing impact metrics and proposed improvements

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Assessing citation networks for dissemination and implementation research frameworks

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The Impact of Author-Selected Keywords on Citation Counts

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Concentration of the Most-Cited Papers in the Scientific Literature: Analysis of Journal Ecosystems

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Measuring Impact in Research Evaluations: A Thorough Discussion of Methods for, Effects of and Problems with Impact Measurements

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Empirical developments in retraction

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Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation

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Weak evidence for determinants of citation frequency in ecological articles

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Skewness of Citation Impact Data and Covariates of Citation Distributions: A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis Based on Web of Science Data

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Citation-Based Journal Rankings: Key Questions, Metrics, and Data Sources

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Detecting anomalous citation groups in journal networks

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How Scholars Implement Trust in Their Reading, Citing, and Publishing Activities: Geographical Differences

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Discordance Between Conclusions Stated in the Abstract and Conclusions in the Article: Analysis of Published Randomized Controlled Trials of Systemic Therapy in Lung Cancer

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Should highly cited items be excluded in impact factor calculation? The effect of review articles on journal impact factor

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Overflow in science and its implications for trust

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Debasing the Currency of Science: The Growing Menace of Predatory Open Access Journals

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Bibliometric Indices of Scientific Journals: Time to Overcome the Obsession and Think beyond the Impact Factor

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Citation Success Index − An Intuitive Pair-Wise Journal Comparison Metric

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Bibliometric Indicators: Why Do We Need More than One?

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Characterisation of academic journals in the digital age

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The Impact Factor as a Measuring Tool of the Prestige of the Journals in Research Assessment in Mathematics

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Methodological quality in clinical trials and bibliometric indicators: no evidence of correlations

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Impact factor penalized by self-citations

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