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T1 Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences
A1 Chang, Chia-Lin
A1 McAleer, Michael
AB The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations. The new index is used to analyse the leading 500 journals in both the Sciences and Social Sciences using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs) that are based on alternative transformations of citations. It is shown that ICQ is a useful additional measure to 2YIF and other well known RAMs for the purpose of evaluating the impact and quality, as well as ranking, of journals as it contains information that has very low correlations with the information contained in the well known RAMs for both the Sciences and Social Sciences.
YR 2014
FD 2014-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41560
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41560
LA eng
NO JEL Classifications: C18, C81, Y10.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 dic 2025