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Perspective factor: a novel indicator for the assessment of journal quality

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: ‘Impact factor (IF)’ has been practically the only indicator to assess journal quality. However, it has various problems associated with citation analysis, such as the effects of ‘different sizes of audience’ and ‘biased citation’. To overcome this, we here propose a new objective index, ‘perspective factor (PF)’, which estimates the journal quality independently of citation analysis. The relationship between IF and PF of life science journals published in 1997, for example, gives a positive correlation when we excluded review journals and extremely high-IF journals, which could not gain comparatively high PF values.

Source: Research Evaluation

DOI: 10.3152/147154404781776374

Authors: Ryosuke L Ohniwa, Masatsugu Denawa, Mituko Kudo, Keiko Nakamura, Kunio Takeyasu

Institution: Kyoto University

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2114020686

FWCI: 0.424

Cites: 18

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10