Journal topic citation potential and between-field comparisons: The topic normalized impact factor

被引：25

作者：

Dorta-Gonzalez, Pablo ^{[1
]}

Isabel Dorta-Gonzalez, Maria ^{[2
]}

Rosa Santos-Penate, Dolores ^{[1
]}

Suarez-Vega, Rafael ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Inst Turismo & Desarrollo Econ Sostenible Tides, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain

[2] Univ La Laguna, Dept Estadist Invest Operat & Comp, E-38207 San Cristobal la Laguna, Spain

来源：

JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS | 2014年 / 8卷 / 02期

关键词：

Journal assessment; Journal metric; Bibliometric indicator; Citation analysis; Journal impact factor; Source normalization; Citation potential; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; TERMS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.013

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

The journal impact factor is not comparable among fields of science and social science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behavior across disciplines. In this work, a source normalization of the journal impact factor is proposed. We use the aggregate impact factor of the citing journals as a measure of the citation potential in the journal topic, and we employ this citation potential in the normalization of the journal impact factor to make it comparable between scientific fields. An empirical application comparing some impact indicators with our topic normalized impact factor in a set of 224 journals from four different fields shows that our normalization, using the citation potential in the journal topic, reduces the betwen-group variance with respect to the within-group variance in a higher proportion than the rest of indicators analyzed. The effect of journal self-citations over the normalization process is also studied. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：406 / 418

页数：13

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