INVITED ARTICLE: Building Journal Impact Factor Quartile into the Assessment of Academic Performance: A Case Study

Abstract

This study aims to provide information about the Q Concept defined as the division of journal impact factors into quartiles based on given field categories so that the disadvantages resulting from the direct use of journal impact factors can be eliminated. While the number of "Original articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) database-indexed journals like SCI, SSCI and A&HCI" is an important indicator for research assessment in Turkey, neither the journal impact factors nor the Q Concept of these papers have been taken into account. Present study analyzes the scientific production of the Amasya University researchers in journals indexed in WoS database in the period 2014-2018 using the Q concept. The share of publications by Q category journals as well as the average citations received by the works from Amasya University were compared to the average situation in Turkey and other different countries in the world. Results indicate that the articles published by Amasya University researchers were mostly published in low impact factor journals (Q4 journals) (36.49%), in fact, only a small share of papers were published in high impact journals (14.32% in Q1 journals). The share of papers published in low impact journals by researchers from Amasya University is higher than the Turkish average and much higher than the scientific leading countries. The average citations received by papers published in Q1 journals was around six times higher than papers published in Q4 journals (8.92 vs. 1.56), thus papers published in Q1 journals received 30.02% citations despite only 14.32% of the papers was published in these journals. The share of papers published which were never cited in WoS was 27.48%, increasing from 9.68% in Q1 to almost half (48.10%) in Q4. The study concludes with some suggestions on how and where the Q Concept can be used.

Bibliometric Analysis of Educational Research Articles Published in the Field of Social Study Education Based on Web of Science Database

“…When the literature is examined, a fair number of studies based on bibliometric analysis are observed which are of international origin (e.g. Haiqi, 1994;Moed, De Bruin & Van Leeuwen, 1995;Larson, 1996;Gupta & Pangannaya, 2000;Tonta, 2002;Al & Coştur, 2007;Wright & Pullen, 2007Atılgan, Atakan & Bulut, 2008Chen et al, 2011;Thanuskodi, 2012;Kumar, 2013;Pareek, 2013;Wang et al, 2014;Çetin & Çaylan, 2015;Kolle et al, 2015;Tupe & Khaparde , 2016;Jan, 2017;Gaviria-Marin, Merigo & Popa, 2018;Milfont et al, 2019;Karagöz & Koç Ardıç, 2019;Merigó et al, 2019;Şeref & Karagöz, 2019;Orbay, Miranda & Orbay, 2020). Although there are plentiful studies in the literature examining the field of social studies education in terms of bibliometric features, at this point, in this study, we tried to reveal the situation in terms of scientific articles and bibliometric tools related to Social Studies education.…”

Uluslararası Dergilerde Yayımlanan Türkiye Adresli Makalelerin Atıf Etkisini Artıran Faktörler

“…TÜBİTAK Türkiye Adresli Uluslararası Bilimsel Yayınları Teşvik (UBYT) Programı çerçevesinde desteklenen makalelerin ortalama atıf sayısı destek almayanlara oranla biraz daha yüksektir (Tonta ve Akbulut, 2020, s. 1627. Dergi etki faktörü yüksek Q1 dergilerinde yayımlanan TR adresli makalelerin ortalama atıf sayısı daha yüksek, bu dergilerde yayımlanan ve hiç atıf almayan makalelerin oranı ise daha düşüktür (Orbay, Karamustafaoğlu ve Miranda, 2021;Orbay, Miranda ve Orbay, 2020). Ancak dünyada makalelerin yaklaşık %40'ı Q1 dergilerinde yayımlanırken, TR adresli makalelerde bu oran sadece %21'dir (Tonta ve Akbulut, 2020, s. 1627.…”

Ubicación de revistas científicas en cuartiles según SJR

“…Por su parte, Orbay et al (2020) presentaron un estudio sobre revistas ubicadas por cuartiles de acuerdo a las métricas aportados por WoS en el que reportaron que a pesar de la inclusión de las revistas en los núcleos principales de la indexadora (SCIE, SSCI y A&HCI) se evidencia un porcentaje de artículos que no son citados llegando a ser de hasta el 27,48% en revistas Q1 y de 48,10% en las revistas Q4. Lo anterior también ratifica que pareciera que se deben evaluar mejores metodologías de impacto donde la calidad de las publicaciones sea revisada a profundidad para Anales de Documentación, 2021, vol.…”

“…24, nº 1 ISSN electrónico: 1697-7904 --http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesdoc.455951. los percentiles entre 50 y 75% en el cuartil Q2 y el percentil superior (> 75%) es ocupado por las revistas Q1 (Orbay et al, 2020).…”