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Perspective factor: a novel indicator for the assessment of journal quality

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  • Ryosuke L Ohniwa
  • Masatsugu Denawa
  • Mituko Kudo
  • Keiko Nakamura
  • Kunio Takeyasu

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‘Impact factor (IF)’ has been practically the only indicator to assess journal quality. However, it has various problems associated with citation analysis, such as the effects of ‘different sizes of audience’ and ‘biased citation’. To overcome this, we here propose a new objective index, ‘perspective factor (PF)’, which estimates the journal quality independently of citation analysis. The relationship between IF and PF of life science journals published in 1997, for example, gives a positive correlation when we excluded review journals and extremely high-IF journals, which could not gain comparatively high PF values. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Ryosuke L Ohniwa & Masatsugu Denawa & Mituko Kudo & Keiko Nakamura & Kunio Takeyasu, 2004. "Perspective factor: a novel indicator for the assessment of journal quality," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 13(3), pages 175-180, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:13:y:2004:i:3:p:175-180
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    1. Ryosuke L. Ohniwa & Aiko Hibino & Kunio Takeyasu, 2010. "Trends in research foci in life science fields over the last 30 years monitored by emerging topics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 85(1), pages 111-127, October.
    2. Didegah, Fereshteh & Thelwall, Mike & Gazni, Ali, 2012. "An international comparison of journal publishing and citing behaviours," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 516-531.
    3. Zahed Bigdeli & Morteza Kokabi & Gholam Reza Rajabi & Ali Gazni, 2013. "Patterns of authors’ information scattering: towards a causal explanation of information scattering from a scholarly information-seeking behavior perspective," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(1), pages 103-131, July.
    4. Chien Hsiang Liao, 2011. "How to improve research quality? Examining the impacts of collaboration intensity and member diversity in collaboration networks," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 86(3), pages 747-761, March.

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