Citation-based metrics are appropriate tools in journal assessment provided that they are accurate and used in an informed way

Current Biomedical Scientific Impact (2013) of Institutions, Academic Journals and Researchers in the Republic of Macedonia

“…With SJR, the subject field, the quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation [17]. The impact of a single citation is given a higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa [21,27]. The SJR and SNIP of Macedonian biomedical journals are indicators of the quality of these journals.…”

Analysis of Macedonian Medical Scientific Papers in the Scopus Database

“…With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation have a direct effect on the value of a citation [14] and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) measures citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a specific subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa [15,16]. SJR and SNIPS for Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences are indicators for the quality of these journals.…”

Comparing the influence of ecology journals using citation-based indices: making sense of a multitude of metrics

“…As indicated by PCA, no one metric captures all the multidimensionality of journal influence (Figure 2, Bollen et al 2009). Each metric provides particular information about a journal's influence on the scientific community, or at least on the scientific community's citation habits (Moed et al 2012). However, given the numerous, valid criticisms of the JIF, I recommend avoiding much inference based on this particular metric.…”

“…However, these indices are still best suited for examining the influence of individual researchers (with caution). Dividing the h-index by the number of papers published to create the normalized h-index has been proposed to standardize the h-index for journal comparison (Sidiropoulos et al 2007, Alonso et al 2009). However, the normalized h-index does not have the intuitive interpretation of the JIF or full network inference of the Eigenfactor, AI, or SJR metrics.…”