A journal's impact factor is influenced by changes in publication delays of citing journals

Shi, Dongbo; Rousseau, Ronald; Liu, Yang; Li, Jiang

doi:10.1002/asi.23706

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“…The editorial delay of academic papers published in Nature , Science , and Physical Review Letters also has a strong negative correlation with the possibility of being highly cited (Lin et al, 2016 ). One journal publication delay also influences another journal's impact factor (Shi et al, 2017 ). When the publication delay of a journal increases, the impact factor of all journals in its inter–citation journal group will decrease, and the ranking of the journals according to the impact factor may be changed (Yu, et al, 2006a , 2006b ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment—based on online data in PLOS

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2023

Scientometrics

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The development of network technique and open access has made numerous research results freely obtained online, thereby facilitating the growth of the emerging evaluation methods of Altmetrics. However, it is unknown whether the time interval from reception to publication has an impact on the evaluation indicators of articles in the social network environment. We construct a range of time-series indexes that represent the features of the evaluation indicators and then explore the correlation of acceptance delay, technical delay, and overall delay with the relevant indicators of citations, usage, sharing and discussions, and collections that are obtained from the open access journal platform PLOS. Moreover, this research also explores the differences in the correlations of the delays for the literature in six subject areas with the corresponding indicators and the discrepancies of the correlations of delays and indexes in various metric quartiles. The results of the Mann–Whitney U test reveal that the length of delays affects the performance of the literature on some indicators. This study indicates that reducing the acceptance time and final publication time of articles can improve the efficiency of knowledge diffusion through the formal academic citation channel, but in the context of social networking communication, an appropriate interval at a particular stage in the publishing process can enhance the heat of sharing, discussion, and collection of articles to a small extent, hence boosting the influence and attention received by the literature on the internet.

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A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment—based on online data in PLOS

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2023

Scientometrics

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“…Por otro lado, el retraso en la publicación, definido como el intervalo de tiempo entre el envío del artículo y su publicación influye considerablemente en el Factor de Impacto (SHI et al, 2017). El propio Garfield (2006) admitió que procesos lentos en la salida de una publicación pueden impactar en la cantidad de citas recibidas y llevar a que el indicador 1 El concepto de baremo se puede abordar como un conjunto de normas para el establecimiento de criterios utilizado por una institución u organización para medir los méritos de una persona, un procedimiento o una rama de la ciencia a través del establecimiento de escalas que permitan medir e interpretar el impacto de la información.…”

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Efecto de las citas de revistas Emerging Source Citation Index en el Factor de Impacto.

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Objetivo: analizar el efecto que tienen las citas provenientes de revistas de la colección Emerging Sources Citation Index en el valor del Factor de Impacto de las revistas latinoamericanas incluidas en los Journal Citation Reports. Método: se emplearon 241 revistas de la edición 2020, que representan el 2% del total de las colecciones de Ciencias Sociales y Exactas del Journal Citation Reports. Para el desarrollo de la investigación se sistematizó la información de cada revista, recogiendo datos descriptivos de utilidad para cada una de las fases de análisis. A partir de las citas que aportan las revistas Emerging Sources Citation Index, se realizó un nuevo cálculo del Factor de Impacto eliminando de la fórmula las citas provenientes de estas revistas, para establecer conclusiones que aporten al debate sobre el efecto real y relevancia de las revistas de esta colección y la relevancia, comparando este resultado con el Factor de Impacto sin autocitas. Se revisó además la literatura relacionada con los indicadores bibliométricos, especialmente el Factor de Impacto, sus distintas metodologías de cálculo, sus implicaciones y repercusiones y cómo estas contribuyen al debate sobre su uso como medida de evaluación. Resultados: aunque las citas emitidas por las revistas Emerging Sources Citation Index afectan en general el valor del Factor de Impacto en gran parte de la muestra seleccionada, no se observaron descensos significativos. El mayor porcentaje de citas emitidas por la colección emergente proviene de Brasil, con el mayor número de revistas en el Journal Citation Reports y se observa con mayor claridad su efecto en ámbitos de Ciencias Exactas y en revistas Q4 del Journal Citation Reports. Conclusiones: la situación que propician las revistas emergentes y el número de citas que aportan constituye un valor añadido, que en el futuro puede explotarse para el mejoramiento de las propias revistas y la visibilidad de la región dentro de una fuente tan importante como Web of Science, además de contar con mayor número de revistas en la colección central para la evaluación de la investigación.

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“…Nowadays, many journals post accepted articles online before they are formally published in an issue (in-press articles). The overall publication delay (the time between submission and publication) negatively influences citations (Luwel & Moed, 1998;Yu, Wang & Yu, 2005;Tort, Targino & Amaral, 2012;Shi, Rousseau, Yang & Li, 2017).…”

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Publication modalities ‘article in press’ and ‘open access’ in relation to journal average citation

González-Betancor

Dorta-González

2019

Scientometrics

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There has been a generalization in the use of two publication practices by scientific journals during the past decade: 1. 'article in press' or early view, which allows access to the accepted paper before its formal publication in an issue; 2. 'open access', which allows readers to obtain it freely and free of charge. This paper studies the influence of both publication modalities on the average impact of the journal and its evolution over time. It tries to identify the separate effect of access on citation into two major parts: early view and selection effect, managing to provide some evidence of the positive effect of both.Scopus is used as the database and CiteScore as the measure of journal impact. The prevalence of both publication modalities is quantified. Differences in the average impact factor of group of journals, according to their publication modalities, are tested.The evolution over time of the citation influence, from 2011 to 2016, is also analysed.Finally, a linear regression to explain the correlation of these publication practices with the CiteScore in 2016, in a ceteris paribus context, is estimated.Our main findings show evidence of a positive correlation between average journal impact and advancing the publication of accepted articles, moreover this correlation increases over time. The open access modality, in a ceteris paribus context, also correlates positively with average journal impact.

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A journal's impact factor is influenced by changes in publication delays of citing journals

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment—based on online data in PLOS

A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment—based on online data in PLOS

Efecto de las citas de revistas Emerging Source Citation Index en el Factor de Impacto.

Publication modalities ‘article in press’ and ‘open access’ in relation to journal average citation

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