IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamist/v63y2012i5p1017-1029.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge ranked according to their multidimensional prestige of influential journals

Author

Listed:
  • J. A. García
  • Rosa Rodriguez‐Sánchez
  • J. Fdez‐Valdivia

Abstract

A journal may be considered as having dimension‐specific prestige when its score, based on a given journal ranking model, exceeds a threshold value. But a journal has multidimensional prestige only if it is a prestigious journal with respect to a number of dimensions—e.g., Institute for Scientific Information Impact Factor, immediacy index, eigenfactor score, and article influence score. The multidimensional prestige of influential journals takes into account the fact that several prestige indicators should be used for a distinct analysis of the impact of scholarly journals in a subject category. After having identified the multidimensionally influential journals, their prestige scores can be aggregated to produce a summary measure of multidimensional prestige for a subject category, which satisfies numerous properties. Using this measure of multidimensional prestige to rank subject categories, we have found the top scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge as of 2010.

Suggested Citation

  • J. A. García & Rosa Rodriguez‐Sánchez & J. Fdez‐Valdivia, 2012. "Scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge ranked according to their multidimensional prestige of influential journals," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(5), pages 1017-1029, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:63:y:2012:i:5:p:1017-1029
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22615
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22615
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/asi.22615?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:63:y:2012:i:5:p:1017-1029. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.