Impact factors: use and abuse.

By M. Amin, Michael Mabe. Medicina, 2003

529 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• Web of Science use in published research and review papers 1997–2017: a selective, dynamic, cross-domain, content-based analysis (2017, background): “…factor is a subject of on-going deliberation causing some researchers to feel that the JIF is not a consistently reliable indicator of research quality (Amin and Mabe 2004; Cameron 2005; Coelho et al. 2003; da Silva and Berne`s 2017; Hansson 1995; Kumar et al. 2009; Seglen 1997; Simons 2008).”
• Environmental enrichment: A GAP analysis (2007, background): “While these indicators of research quality are not undisputed in terms of their usefulness (Amin and Mabe, 2000), the present results indicate that the science being produced is of average quality of biological sciences.”
• The Impact Factor Fallacy (2017, background): “In deviating from its original purpose it is now widely used to evaluate the quality of individual publications and the work of scientists (Amin and Mabe, 2003; Arnold and Fowler, 2010).”
• Advantages and limitations in the use of impact factor measures for the assessment of research performance (2002, background): “In fact, slight variations have been described for the impact factor of established journals from year to year (Amin and Mabe, 2000).”
• Does Sample Size Matter in Qualitative Research?: A Review of Qualitative Interviews in is Research (2013, background): “Abundant qualitative research exists in the IS field, including a variety of reviews and recommendations tailored specifically to the use of qualitative methodology in the IS field [1, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 40].”
• Object based image analysis for remote sensing (2010, background): “The ‘‘impact factor’’ is one of the standardised measures created by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), which can be used to measure variations over time in the number of citations received for articles in a journal (Amin and Mabe, 2000).”
• Industry Funding of University Research and Scientific Productivity (2011, unknown): “…was published would have also been available, but since we study different fields of science, the journal impact factors have been shown to be not appropriate (see Amin and Mabe 2000). v In Germany a dissertation needs to be published in the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek).”
• Way forward for alternative energy research: A bibliometric analysis during 1994–2013 (2015, methodology): “The value of impact factor is calculated by means of dividing the number of current citations a journal receives to its articles published in last two years by the number of articles been published during the same period of time [32].”