An analysis of bibliometric indicators to JCR according to Benford’s law

Alves, Alexandre Donizeti; Yanasse, Horácio Hideki; Soma, Nei Yoshihiro

doi:10.1007/s11192-016-1908-3

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“…Last category of the inherent ones, the impact of the papers was measured by: (i) the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of each journal, by InCites Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2018, that was collected from Clarivate Analytics ® 2019; and (ii) the annual average of citations, also collected from Google ® Scholar in 2019. In line with Alves et al (2016), these indicators of papers impact helps the measurement of its performance and scientific influence.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…This lack of researches in this early period can be attributed to the fact that content on the subject was still incipient and that some important papers were published in non-JCR journals. Among them, we highlight the papers published in Working Papers of institutions such as IMF and World Bank, which despite having a significant average of citations, are not within the main source known to the researchers (Alves et al, 2016).…”

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“…From the remaining papers, we selected those published in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) journals, with available Journal Impact Factor (JIF) from the last available edition on the date of submission of this paper (2018), excluding those without assigned JIF. This choice was because the JCR is actually "the main source of bibliometric indicators known by the scientific community" (Alves et al, 2016(Alves et al, , p. 1490) and a popular tool to asses research impact, significance, quality and prestige of a journal (Haghdoost et al, 2014). Moreover, the JIF is a database widely used in scientometric research, such as Rodríguez Bolívar et al (2012) Also, despite knowing that there have been several changes in the index from the date of publication of the papers to that most recent version of the JIF, we chose to analyze only the 2018 edition, which enabled us to investigate the current state of the scientific impact of the field, in addition to standardizing the data to a single edition, so that it was possible to compare the impact factors of the articles.…”

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confidence: 99%