Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

Masood Fooladi, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Maryam Farhadi (), Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Farhadi and Nader Ale Ebrahim

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Abstract: Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers’ behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor.

Keywords: Impact factor (IF); Journal ranking; Criticism; Praise; SCOPUS; Web of science; Self-citation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 I2 I21 I25 I29 O1 O10 P0 P00 Z00 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02-16, Revised 2013-03-18
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Published in Asian Social Science 5.9(2013): pp. 176-182

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