Impact Factors, Altmetrics, and Prestige, Oh My: The Relationship Between Perceived Prestige and Objective Measures of Journal Quality

Bray, Nathaniel J.; Major, Claire Howell

doi:10.1007/s10755-022-09635-4

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“…There are some who would suggest this is a limitation, the need to apply a sobriquet suggesting care be taken in analysis using altmetrics. How is this different than the argument for the use of impact factors though, with which altmetrics have been seen to correlate (see Bray & Major, 2022)? With the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of article content produced, in 2005, Jorge Hirsch created the Hirsch Number which has become widely known as the H-Index.…”

Section: Altmetrics and The Assessment Of The Public Intellectualmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…And their statement is eminently true; faculty produce research in forms we socially constrain each other to use. The coin of the academic realm for research faculty continues to be blind peer review journal articles (see Bray & Major, 2022).…”

Section: The Difficulty Of Assessing the Academic Public Intellectualmentioning

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“…Further, working with the lay public in particular suggests that measures such as downloads, abstract reads, media mentions, and other connections via social media and other measures can provide indications of effectiveness, in some cases providing more clear and immediate evidence than citation counts. Thanks to altmetrics, which correlate highly with bibliometric measures (see Bray & Major, 2022), we have ways to assess these. This will allow for consideration of other forms of publications as well, which links with the scholarship of integration for example.…”

Section: Implications For Policy and Practicementioning

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How should we account for and assess the work of the public intellectual? This chapter unpacks approaches to the assessment of the public intellectual to broadly consider the roles and functions of the academic public intellectual, examine how their roles fit within Boyer's domains of scholarship and how institutional structures both support and impinge upon intellectual activities. It then discusses how the assessment of public intellectuals can be more appropriately and objectively conducted using alternative metrics and clearer expectations for evaluation.

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The Value of Articles Published in Journals Focused on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Use of Citations and Altmetrics as Indicators of Value

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Evolution of number of citations per article in Materials Science: possible causes and effect on the impact factor of journals

Ariza-Guerrero,

Blázquez

2023

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An overall rise in the citation parameters used in the metrics of scientific publications (i.e. journal impact factor, JIF) has taken place since the last decade of the previous century, coinciding with the electronic distribution of (and access to) scientific literature. This inflation like tendency is herein analyzed in the area of Materials Science and also affects the number of publications. Considering average JIF values, its growth is proportional to the number of publications in the area and to its JIF value, leading to an inhomogeneous boost that preferentially benefits those journals with high JIF. An elevation in the number of publications per year alone cannot explain this behavior but it occurs due to a continuous and widespread increment in the number of citations per article, which only remains limited when restrictions are applied by journals to the maximum number of pages per article. In this work we observe this positive correlation between the increase in the number of references per article and the overall increase in JIF but, in our analysis, a kink point is observed in consistency with the appearance of online databases, particularly those free available in 2004. Online databases along with the widespread of open access publishing option made the research content easily available to the scientific community contributing to an increasing trend (without apparent saturation) in the number of articles used to contextualize the new scientific contributions.

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Impact Factors, Altmetrics, and Prestige, Oh My: The Relationship Between Perceived Prestige and Objective Measures of Journal Quality

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Assessment and the academic public intellectual

Assessment and the academic public intellectual

The Value of Articles Published in Journals Focused on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Use of Citations and Altmetrics as Indicators of Value

Evolution of number of citations per article in Materials Science: possible causes and effect on the impact factor of journals

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