Journal report card

doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0671-3

Journal report card

2012-02-17

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Judit Bar‐Ilan *

DOI：10.1007/s11192-012-0671-3

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The impact factor is one of the most used scientometric indicators. Its proper and improper uses have been discussed extensively before. It has been criticized extensively, yet it is still here. In this paper I propose the journal report card, which is a set of measures, each with an easily comprehensible meaning that provides a fuller picture of the journals' standing. The set of measures in the report card include the impact factor, the h-index, number of citations at different points on the ranked list of citations, extent of uncitedness and coverage of the h-core. The report card is computed for two sets of journals, the top-20 journals in JCR 2010 and the top-20 journals in JCR 2010 for the category Information and Library Science.

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Journal report card

Median

90% percentile

Synchronous h-index for journals

Journal report card

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