The Benefits and Drawbacks of Impact Factor for Journal Collection Management in Libraries

The Productivity of Economics Research in Slovakia

“…Other universities published between 9% and 32% of their articles in this journal. These rates are lower than those reported by Ciaian, Pokrivcak, and Drabik (2008) for 1990-2004, when SAV and EUBA staff published around 90% of their articles in Ekonomicky Casopis.…”

“…It is calculated as a ratio of total citations of articles published in the journal in the two previous years and the total number of articles published in the journal in the previous two years. Some of the advantages of IF are that it is based on objective citation data; it is a well-established metric for journals' scientific prestige; and its calculation is easily understood (Nisonger 2004). This indicator is relevant to consider in our analysis because under the current Slovak university system, it is used as a quality indicator of the publication productivity of candidates for tenure-track positions (AK 2013a;Law No.…”

“…The IF is susceptible to cronyism and ceremonial citations, when friends/colleagues cite one another to increase their mutual citation count and when authors cite authority in the field to demonstrate knowledge of the research, respectively. The two-year period used for IF calculation is arbitrary and relatively short, which may lead to significant year-to-year fluctuation of its value (Lubrano et al 2003;Nisonger 2004) Recently, the AIS and the NE have been emphasized in the literature as more accurate measures of journal quality, as they address some of the weaknesses of IF (Chang, Maasoumi, and McAleer 2016;Münich and Skoda 2016). Chang, Maasoumi, and McAleer (2016) show that the IF of economics journals can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal quality compared to indicators that take into consideration the frequency of citations and the quality of citing journals, such as NE or AIS.…”

Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar

“…More complete citation counts can help support or identify more precisely discrepancies between research productivity, peer evaluation, and citation data. More complete citation counts can also help generate more accurate h-index scores for authors and journals (Bar-Ilan, 2006;Bornmann & Daniel, 2005, 2007Cronin & Meho, 2006;Hirsch, 2005;Oppenheim, 2007) and journal impact factors (Garfield, 1996(Garfield, , 2006Nisonger, 2004b;Saha, Saint, & Christakis, 2003), as well as identify international impact (Nisonger, 2004a;de Arenas, Castanos-Lomnitz, & Arenas-Licea, 2002).…”

Perceptions of value and value beyond perceptions: measuring the quality and value of journal article readings

“…Focusing on value of entire journals may be for collection development decisions, such as adding or deleting a title, or is of importance to journal editors or publishers to enable them to see where their journals fit in comparison to other titles on the same topic. 6 Sometimes individual articles or readings are the more important unit for which value is measured, in which case citation rankings are the traditional bibliometric technique to measure quality and value. It can be argued that the value of the individual pieces of a journal (articles) can be measured quite independently of the whole.…”