Zitt, M. and Small, H. (2008) Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (11). pp. 1856-1860.
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Abstract
A new approach to the field normalization of the classical journal impact factor is introduced. This approach, called the audience factor, takes into consideration the citing propensity of journals for a given cited journal, specifically, the mean number of references of each citing journal, and fractionally weights the citations from those citing journals. Hence, the audience factor is a variant of a fractional citation-counting scheme, but computed on the citing journal rather than the citing article or disciplinary level, and, in contrast to other cited-side normalization strategies, is focused on the behavior of the citing entities. A comparison with standard journal impact factors from Thomson Reuters shows a more diverse representation of fields within various quintiles of impact, significant movement in rankings for a number of individual journals, but nevertheless a high overall correlation with standard impact factors
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Lereco U-1134, SAE2 department, INRA La Géraudière, La Géraudière BP71627, 44316 Nantes, France, and Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), 93 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris, France |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2014 05:35 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2014 05:35 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20880 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/13449 |
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