Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences

Chia-Lin Chang () and Michael McAleer

No 2014-06, Documentos de Trabajo del ICAE from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico

Abstract: The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations. The new index is used to analyse the leading 500 journals in both the Sciences and Social Sciences using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs) that are based on alternative transformations of citations. It is shown that ICQ is a useful additional measure to 2YIF and other well known RAMs for the purpose of evaluating the impact and quality, as well as ranking, of journals as it contains information that has very low correlations with the information contained in the well known RAMs for both the Sciences and Social Sciences.

Keywords: Research assessment measures; Impact factors; Eigenfactor; Article Influence; Quality weighted citations; Total citations; Index of citations quality; Journal rankings. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 C81 Y10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2014-02
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Note: The authors are grateful to Essie Maasoumi for helpful discussions. For financial support, the first author wishes to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the second author acknowledges the Australian Research Council and the National Science Council, Taiwan.
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Working Paper: Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences (2014)
Working Paper: Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences (2014)
Working Paper: Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences (2014)
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