“…Following the methodology in numerous research papers, 3,5,11 all traditional journal articles, or "article" and "review" document types, published 1997-2011 in the category "computer science, hardware architecture" (n=51,474) were downloaded (December 2012) from the WoS Core Collection for analysis. Proceedings papers, reprints, notes, letters, and corrections were excluded; 1997 was selected as the first year of the study period since it was when information on impact factors (IF) became available from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).…”