Development of Agrarian Sciences at the AABC with comments on impact and performance evaluations

Brief comments on the 2020 Impact Factor of the AABC released by Journal Citation Reports

“…In this process, I found out that articles could get missing from the JCR and Web of Science (WoS) databases, which happened with 17 manuscripts published in 2018 that were disregarded in the 2019 JCR (Clarivate 2020, Kellner 2020a. This led to the introduction of the Missing Article Index (MAI, see Kellner 2020b), which for AABC-90 was 0.0567 considering the 2019 JCR (Kellner 2020c).…”

“…To get a sense how better selection of manuscripts (a subject that, despite being very complex and controversial, tends to increase due to the general lack of funding for publication, particularly in Brazil) might influence the IF of a journal, I have introduced the Reescalated Article Impact Factor (RAIF), which is obtained by dividing the total number of citations by the number of cited articles (Kellner 2020a). The IF essentially doubles in 2019 and triples in 2020 (Table I).…”