Bibliometric Rankings of Journals Based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database
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https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-7092.2015.04.11Keywords:
Research assessment measures, Impact factors, Bibliometric measures.Abstract
Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among others, the celebrated Impact Factor. However, there are numerous bibliometric measures, also known as research assessment measures, based on the Thomson Reuters citations database, but they do not all seem to have been collected in a single source. The purpose of this paper is to present, define and compare the 16 most well-known Thomson Reuters bibliometric measures in a single source. It is important that the existing bibliometric measures be presented in any rankings papers as alternative bibliometric measures based on the Thomson Reuters citations database can and do produce different rankings, as has been documented in a number of papers in the bibliometrics literature.References
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Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2012), Citations and impact of ISI tourism and hospitality journals, Tourism Management Perspectives, 1(1), 2-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2011.08.001
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2013a), Ranking journal quality by harmonic mean of ranks: An application to ISI Statistics & Probability, Statistica Neerlandica, 67(1), 27-53.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9574.2012.00529.x
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2013b), What do experts know about forecasting journal quality? A comparison with ISI research impact in finance, Annals of Financial Economics, 8(1), 1-30.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S201049521350005X
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2013c), Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc, Econometrics, 1, 217-235.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/econometrics1030217
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2014a), Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 14-023/III, Tinbergen Institute , The Netherlands.
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2014b), Ranking economics and econometrics ISI journals by quality weighted citations, Review of Economics, 65(1), 35-52.
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2014c), How should journal quality be ranked? An application to agricultural, energy, environmental and resource economics, Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 3, 33-47.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-7092.2014.03.05
Chang, C.-L. and M. McAleer (2015), Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences, with an application to finance and accounting, to appear in Managerial Finance.
Chang, C.-L., E. Maasoumi and M. McAleer (2014), Robust ranking of journal quality: An application to economics, to appear in Econometric Reviews.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2014.956639
Chang, C.-L., M. McAleer and L. Oxley (2011a), Great expectatrics: Great papers, great journals, great econometrics, Econometric Reviews, 30(6), 583-619.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2011.586614
Chang, C.-L., M. McAleer and L. Oxley (2011b), What makes a great journal great in economics? The singer not the song, Journal of Economic Surveys, 25(2), 326-361.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00648.x
Chang, C.-L., M. McAleer and L. Oxley (2011c), What makes a great journal great in the sciences? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?, Scientometrics, 87(1), 17-40.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0335-0
Chang, C.-L., M. McAleer and L. Oxley (2011d), How are journal impact, prestige and article influence related? An application to neuroscience, Journal of Applied Statistics, 38(11), 2563-2573.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2011.559212
Chang, C.-L., M. McAleer and L. Oxley (2013), Coercive journal self citations, impact factor, journal influence and article influence, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 93, 190-197.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2013.04.006
Hirsch, J.E. (2005), An index to quantify an individual?s scientific research output, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(46), 16569-15572 (November 15, 2005).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102
Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014), Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters.
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Chang, C.-L., & McAleer, M. (2015). Bibliometric Rankings of Journals Based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database. Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 4, 120–125. https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-7092.2015.04.11
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