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Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF

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  • A. I. Pudovkin

    (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • Eugene Garfield

    (ThomsonReuters—Professional (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information))

Abstract

The ThomsonReuters impact factor is a viable, widely used and informative measure of journal visibility and frequency of use. It is accurate, transparent and easy to use. It is a live and evolving system, that can broaden its scope and implement new features and methods. Some of Vanclay’s suggestions, like wider use of order statistics, or our suggestion of rank normalization might be implemented by JCR in the future.

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  • A. I. Pudovkin & Eugene Garfield, 2012. "Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 92(2), pages 409-412, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:92:y:2012:i:2:d:10.1007_s11192-012-0634-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0634-8
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    Cited by:

    1. David I. Stern, 2013. "Uncertainty Measures for Economics Journal Impact Factors," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 51(1), pages 173-189, March.
    2. Peter Jacso, 2012. "Grim tales about the impact factor and the h-index in the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports databases: reflections on Vanclay’s criticism," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 92(2), pages 325-354, August.
    3. Gabriel-Alexandru Vȋiu & Mihai Păunescu, 2021. "The lack of meaningful boundary differences between journal impact factor quartiles undermines their independent use in research evaluation," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(2), pages 1495-1525, February.
    4. Vinkler, Péter, 2013. "Comparative rank assessment of journal articles," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(3), pages 712-717.
    5. Stuart Brody, 2013. "Impact factor: Imperfect but not yet replaceable," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(1), pages 255-257, July.
    6. Juan Miguel Campanario, 2014. "The effect of citations on the significance of decimal places in the computation of journal impact factors," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 99(2), pages 289-298, May.
    7. Sangwal, Keshra, 2013. "Citation and impact factor distributions of scientific journals published in individual countries," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 487-504.

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