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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Journal impact indicators influence citing behavior because impact factors increase the visibility of papers based on an assumption that journals with higher impact indicators publish papers of higher scientific value.
“journal impact indicators influence citing behavior, firstly because impact factors increase the visibility of the paper based on an assumption that journals with higher impact indicators publish papers of a higher scientific value.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [274]
A problem in citation-based evaluations and analysis is mainly caused by skewed citation distributions.
“apart from differences in citation culture between disciplines, the other obvious problem in citation based evaluations and analysis is mainly caused by skewed citation distributions [178,274].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [274]
Papers published in high quality journals are cited more frequently.
“In turn, papers that are published in high quality journals are cited more frequently.”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [274]
Citation-based impact indicators tend to create bias among authors when choosing a journal for publishing and when choosing which literature to cite.
“Thus, citation-based impact indicators tend to create bias amongst authors not only when choosing journal for publishing, but also when choosing which literature to cite [268,273-275].”
From Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World (2021) · cites this paper as [274]
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- Authors
- Bornmann, L., & Leydesdorff, L.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Bornmann, Lutz
- ORCID
- Bornmann, Lutz
- Venue
- Journal of Informetrics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 164-175
- ISSN
- 1751-1577 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2556835098
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 6.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Journal of Informetrics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- citation impact, skewness, citation distribution, journal impact factor, citation normalization, number of authors, disciplinary differences, bibliometric data
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