[1305.0379] Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

Masood Fooladi, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Maryam Farhadi, Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Farhadi, Nader Ale Ebrahim

(Submitted on 2 May 2013)

Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor.

Comments:	7 pages, No figure
Subjects:	Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
MSC classes:	K.3.2
Journal reference:	Asian Social Science vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 176-182, April 27, 2013
DOI:	10.5539/ass.v9n5p176
Cite as:	arXiv:1305.0379 [cs.DL]
	(or arXiv:1305.0379v1 [cs.DL] for this version)

Submission history

From: Nader Ale Ebrahim [view email]
[v1] Thu, 2 May 2013 09:27:11 GMT (146kb)

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[1305.0379] Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?