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T1 Bibliometric Rankings of Journals Based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database
A1 Chang, Chia-Lin
A1 McAleer, Michael
AB Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among others, the celebrated Impact Factor. However, there are numerous bibliometric measures, also known as research assessment measures, based on the Thomson Reuters citations database, but they do not all seem to have been collected in a single source. The purpose of this paper is to present, define and compare the 16 most well-known Thomson Reuters bibliometric measures in a single source. It is important that the existing bibliometric measures be presented in any rankings papers as alternative bibliometric measures based on the Thomson Reuters citations database can and do produce different rankings, as has been documented in a number of papers in the bibliometrics literature.
SN 2341-2356
YR 2015
FD 2015-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/27531
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/27531
LA eng
NO The authors are grateful for the helpful comments and suggestions of the Editor-in-Chief. For financial support, the first author wishes to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the second author acknowledges the Australian Research Council, the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
NO National Science Council, Taiwan
NO Australian Research Council
NO Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 abr 2025