Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality?
By S. Saha, S. Saint, D. Christakis. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2003
626 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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Citations in the corpus
- Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar (2007, unknown): “…Bornmann & Daniel, 2005, 2007; Cronin & Meho, 2006; Hirsch, 2005; Oppenheim, 2007) and journal impact factors (Garfield, 1996, 2006; Nisonger, 2004b; Saha, Saint, & Christakis, 2003), as well as identify international impact (Nisonger, 2004a; de Arenas, Castanos-Lomnitz, & Arenas-Licea, 2002).”
- Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor (2008, background): “On the one hand, authors compete for publishing the products of their research in highly ranked journals (41).”
- Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research (2007, background): “The overlap of citations in monographs and journals, however, was small, suggesting that there may be two distinct populations of highly cited authors. Whitley (2002) compared the duplication and uniqueness of citing documents in Chemical Abstracts and Science Citation Index for the works of 30 chem”
- Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification? (2011, background): “Correlates with expert opinion (Drew and Karpf 1981; Saha et al. 2003; Yue et al. 2007) and with level of evidence (Lau and Samman 2007; Obremskey et al.”
- Positive Outcomes Influence the Rate and Time to Publication, but Not the Impact Factor of Publications of Clinical Trial Results (2013, background): “Impact factor is an index based on the frequency with which a journal article is cited on scientific publication, and is considered a marker of journal quality [29].”
- LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION IN ORGANIZATIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF FACTORS THAT MEDIATE OR MODERATE THE RELATIONSHIP (2012, background): “, 2008) and external assessments of journal quality (Saha et al., 2003).”