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Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation: Journals can be ranked by frequency and impact of citations for science policy studies.

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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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Ranking journals: could Google Scholar Metrics be an alternative to Journal Citation Reports and Scimago Journal Rank?

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Citation Metrics: A Primer on How (Not) to Normalize

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On the behavior of journal impact factor rank-order distribution

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The Disaster of the Impact Factor

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Comparing journals from different fields of science and social science through a JCR subject categories normalized impact factor

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Empirical study of journal impact factors obtained using the classical two-year citation window versus a five-year citation window

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On the Stability of Citation-Based Journal Rankings

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The journal Impact Factor and alternative metrics

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Toward an objective, reliable and accurate method for measuring research leadership

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On first quartile journals which are not of highest impact

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Ten good reasons to use the Eigenfactor™ metrics

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Ranking of the subject areas of Scopus

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Mathematical derivation of the impact factor distribution

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MuICE: Mutual Influence and Citation Exclusivity Author Rank

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What makes a great journal great in the sciences? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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Impact factor manipulation

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A comparison of the Web of Science and publication-level classification systems of science

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The iceberg hypothesis revisited

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Detecting impact factor manipulation with data mining techniques

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Neophilia ranking of scientific journals

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Confidence intervals for Journal Impact Factors

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The impact factor rank-order distribution revisited

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The problems with the subject categories schema in the EigenFactor database from the perspective of ranking journals by their prestige and impact

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Informetrics for librarians: Describing their important role in the evaluation process

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The effect of additional citations in the stability of Journal Citation Report categories

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Scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge ranked according to their multidimensional prestige of influential journals

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JIF-Plots: using plots of citations versus citable items as a tool to study journals and subject categories and discover new scientometric relationships

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

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Non-Substantial Individuals In Aristotle’S Categories

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A bibliometric analysis of literature on bibliometrics in recent half-century

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A Critique of the Impact Factor and Ramifications of Its Misuse in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: The Real Impact of the Impact Factor

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Weighted Impact Factor (WIF) for assessing the quality of scientific journalsPreprint

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