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

An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output

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A review of the literature on citation impact indicators

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Journal impact measures in bibliometric research

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Evaluation Practices and Effects of Indicator Use—A Literature Review

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Psychological relevance and information science

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History of the journal impact factor: Contingencies and consequences

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Differences in impact factor across fields and over time

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Impact factors can mislead

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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributionsPreprint

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Effectiveness of Journal Ranking Schemes as a Tool for Locating Information

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Diversity, value and limitations of the journal impact factor and alternative metrics

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Journal Evaluation: Technical and Practical Issues

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The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor

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Flows of Research Manuscripts Among Scientific Journals Reveal Hidden Submission Patterns

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Accounting for Impact? The Journal Impact Factor and the Making of Biomedical Research in the Netherlands

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The Journal Impact Factor Denominator

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Power law distributions in information science: Making the case for logarithmic binning

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Towards appropriate indicators of journal impact

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Statistical reliability of comparisons based on the citation impact of scientific publications

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Impact, not impact factor

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The Citation: From Culture to Infrastructure

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Multidimensional Journal Evaluation

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Is scientists' publishing behaviour rewardseeking?

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How Authors Select Journals: A Test of the Reward Maximization Model of Submission Behaviour

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Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

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Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective

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The Citation Impact of German Sociology Journals: Some Problems with the Use of Scientometric Indicators in Journal and Research Evaluations

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Rankings of information and library science journals by JIF and by h-type indices

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Interactions between journal attributes and authors' willingness to wait for editorial decisions

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Auto-correlation of journal impact factor for consensus research reporting statements: a cohort study

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Journal report card

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SHELXmakes an impact

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

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Evaluating Research and Researchers by the Journal Impact Factor: Is It Better than Coin Flipping?

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Citation benefit - A journal comparison metric based on full citation distributionsPreprint

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The k-index is introduced to replace the h-index to evaluate better the scientific excellence of individuals

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An indicator of journal impact that is based on calculating a journal's percentage of highly cited publicationsPreprint

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Use of relative extra citation counts and uncited publications to enhance the discriminatory power of the h-index

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On the Heterogeneous Distributions in Paper CitationsPreprint

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