Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors
Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-012-0637-5
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Balaban, Alexandru T.
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作者：
Balaban, Alexandru T.
赫希引文指数h是当今最常用的科学家绩效数字指标，反映在他们的产出和科学界的反应中，反映在对个人贡献的引用中。一些可能的改进h的简要回顾。加菲猫的期刊影响因子（IF）描述了科学界对期刊出版物的反应，反映在前2年内任何给定期刊上发表的所有论文的引用中，并与同期所有可引用文章进行了标准化。再次，一些可能的改进或补充的IF简要审查，包括由布劳恩，Glanzel和舒伯特提出的期刊h指数。赋予更高的权重因子，个别论文的引用比例的IF被认为是一种滥用的有用的数字索引的基础上引用。最多，人们可以把这个论点放在它的头上，人们可以找到理由来归因于个人引用相对于IF的反比关系：如果一篇论文被认为值得被引用，即使它发表在低IF期刊上，该引用应该比如果引用来自高影响力期刊更有价值。也可以考虑反映引用作者声望的权重因素。
The Hirsch citation index h is nowadays the most frequently used numerical indicator for the performance of scientists as reflected in their output and in the reaction of the scientific community reflected in citations of individual contributions. A few of the possible improvements of h are briefly reviewed. Garfield's journal impact factor (IF) characterizes the reaction of the scientific community to publications in journals, reflected in citations of all papers published in any given journal during the preceding 2 years, and normalized against all citable articles during the same period. Again, a few of the possible improvements or supplements of IF are briefly reviewed, including the journal-h index proposed by Braun, Glanzel, and Schubert. Ascribing higher weighting factors to citations of individual papers proportionally to IF is considered to be a misuse of useful numerical indices based on citations. At most, one could turn this argument on its head and one can find reasons to ascribe an inverse proportionality relative to IF for individual citations: if a paper is considered worthy to be cited even if it was published in a low-IF journal, that citation ought to be worth more than if the citation would have been from a higher-impact journal. A weight factor reflecting the prestige of the citing author(s) may also be considered.