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Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals
BACKGROUND: Impact Factor (IF) as a major journal quality indicator has a series of shortcomings including effect of self-citation, review articles, total number of articles, etc. In this study, we compared 4 journals quality indices ((IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), Article Influence Score (AIS) and S...
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AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825934 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2014.22.103-106 |
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author | Kianifar, Hamidreza Sadeghi, Ramin Zarifmahmoudi, Leili |
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description | BACKGROUND: Impact Factor (IF) as a major journal quality indicator has a series of shortcomings including effect of self-citation, review articles, total number of articles, etc. In this study, we compared 4 journals quality indices ((IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), Article Influence Score (AIS) and SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR)) in the specific Pediatric Neurology journals. METHODS: All ISI and Scopus indexed specific Pediatric Neurology journals were compared regarding their 2011 IF, ES, AIS and SJR. RESULTS: Fourteen pediatric Neurology journals were identified, 3 of which were only Scopus indexed and the others were both ISI and Scopus indexed. High correlation was found between IF and AIS (0.850). Correlations between IF and other indices were not that high. Self-citation, total article number and review articles were related to the IF and other indices as well as their ranks. English language and citation to non citable item didn’t have any effect on pediatric neurology journals ranks. CONCLUSION: Although all the above mentioned indicators can be used interchangeably, using all considered indices is a more appropriate way than using only IF for quality assessment of pediatric neurology journals. |
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spelling | pubmed-40080392014-05-13 Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals Kianifar, Hamidreza Sadeghi, Ramin Zarifmahmoudi, Leili Acta Inform Med Original Paper BACKGROUND: Impact Factor (IF) as a major journal quality indicator has a series of shortcomings including effect of self-citation, review articles, total number of articles, etc. In this study, we compared 4 journals quality indices ((IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), Article Influence Score (AIS) and SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR)) in the specific Pediatric Neurology journals. METHODS: All ISI and Scopus indexed specific Pediatric Neurology journals were compared regarding their 2011 IF, ES, AIS and SJR. RESULTS: Fourteen pediatric Neurology journals were identified, 3 of which were only Scopus indexed and the others were both ISI and Scopus indexed. High correlation was found between IF and AIS (0.850). Correlations between IF and other indices were not that high. Self-citation, total article number and review articles were related to the IF and other indices as well as their ranks. English language and citation to non citable item didn’t have any effect on pediatric neurology journals ranks. CONCLUSION: Although all the above mentioned indicators can be used interchangeably, using all considered indices is a more appropriate way than using only IF for quality assessment of pediatric neurology journals. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2014-03-17 2014-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4008039/ /pubmed/24825934 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2014.22.103-106 Text en Copyright: © AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kianifar, Hamidreza Sadeghi, Ramin Zarifmahmoudi, Leili Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title | Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title_full | Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title_fullStr | Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title_short | Comparison Between Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Metrics, and SCimago Journal Rank Indicator of Pediatric Neurology Journals |
title_sort | comparison between impact factor, eigenfactor metrics, and scimago journal rank indicator of pediatric neurology journals |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825934 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2014.22.103-106 |
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