Citation Environment of Angewandte Chemie

Bornmann, Lutz; Leydesdorff, Loet; Marx, Werner

doi:10.2533/chimia.2007.104

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“…This would result in a high correlation between sample size and coefficients across studies. Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), the second covariate here, are published by Thomson Reuters and are a measure of the "average" and fast response of the scientific community to a paper in a journal (Bornmann, Leydesdorff, & Marx, 2007). With this covariate it can be examined whether studies that are published in a journal with a high JIF (journals having greater visibility in the community) report lower correlation coefficients than studies from a journal with a lower JIF.…”

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A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

Bornmann

Mutz

Hug

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Journal of Informetrics

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Section: Covariates Describing the Studiesmentioning

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A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

Bornmann

Mutz

Hug

et al. 2011

Journal of Informetrics

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172

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“…These are publications with substantial citation record and high scientiWc prestige in certain subject categories. Due to the popularity of JIF among science editors and research evaluators worldwide, JCR has actually become a legitimate authority for ranking scholarly journals [2][3][4][5]. Moreover, JIF has been increasingly used as a parameter inXuencing the decision-making process for research grant allocation, hiring and promotion of academic staV [6].…”

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

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The highly popular journal impact factor (JIF) is an average measure of citations within 1 year after the publication of a journal as a whole within the two preceding years. It is widely used as a proxy of a journal's quality and scientific prestige. This article discusses misuses of JIF to assess impact of separate journal articles and the effect of several manuscript versions on JIF. It also presents some newer alternative journal metrics such as SCImago Journal Rank and the h-index and analyses examples of their application in several subject categories.

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“…As AC-IE "publishes articles from the full spectrum of chemistry" according to the journal's chief editor Peter Gölitz (2005, p. 5539), the Thomson Reuters journal set "chemistry" provides only a very rough reference standard for assessing the scientific impact of accepted and rejected (but published elsewhere) Communications (see also the findings in Bornmann, Leydesdorff, & Marx, 2007). Citation practices vary even in different areas (or clusters) within a single subfield (Klamer & van Dalen, 2002;Lewison & Dawson, 1998).…”

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Selecting manuscripts for a high‐impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere

Bornmann

Daniel

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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All journals that use peer review have to deal with the following question: Does the peer review system fulfill its declared objective to select the "best" scientific work? We investigated the journal peer-review process at Angewandte Chemie International Edition (AC-IE), one of the prime chemistry journals worldwide, and conducted a citation analysis for Communications that were accepted by the journal (n = 878) or rejected but published elsewhere (n = 959). The results of negative binomial-regression models show that holding all other model variables constant, being accepted by AC-IE increases the expected number of citations by up to 50%. A comparison of average citation counts (with 95% confidence intervals) of accepted and rejected (but published elsewhere) Communications with international scientific reference standards was undertaken. As reference standards, (a) mean citation counts for the journal set provided by Thomson Reuters corresponding to the field "chemistry" and (b) specific reference standards that refer to the subject areas of Chemical Abstracts were used. When compared to reference standards, the mean impact on chemical research is for the most part far above average not only for accepted Communications but also for rejected (but published elsewhere) Communications. However, average and below-average scientific impact is to be expected significantly less frequently for accepted Communications than for rejected Communications. All in all, the results of this study confirm that peer review at AC-IE is able to select the "best" scientific work with the highest impact on chemical research.

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Citation Environment of Angewandte Chemie

Abstract: Recently, aggregated journal-journal citation networks were made accessible from

Cited by 28 publications

References 17 publications

A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

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

Selecting manuscripts for a high‐impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere

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