Multidimensional Journal Evaluation: Analyzing Scientific Periodicals beyond the Impact Factor

Abstract

Knowledge and Information (K&I) is a peer-reviewed information science book series. The scope of information science comprehends representing, providing, searching and finding of relevant knowledge including all activities of information professionals (e.g., indexing and abstracting) and users (e.g., their information behavior). An important research area is information retrieval, the science of search engines and their users. Topics of knowledge representation include metadata as well as methods and tools of knowledge organization systems (folksonomies, nomenclatures, classification systems, thesauri, and ontologies). Informetrics is empirical information science and consists, among others, of the domain-specific metrics (e.g., scientometrics, webometrics), user and usage research, and evaluation of information systems. The sharing and the distribution of internal and external information in organizations are research topics of knowledge management. The information market can be defined as the exchange of digital information on networks, especially the World Wide Web. Further important research areas of information science are information ethics, information law, and information sociology.

Are the impact factor and other variables related to publishing time in ecology journals?

“…According to Haustein (2012) short publishing time can be considered as a measure of quality of scientific journals and authors tend to choose where to submit a manuscript based on the speed it is published (Rousseau and Rousseau 2012;Heneberg 2013). We found that publishing time had a large variation, and on a single occasion, a paper took almost 2 years to be accepted after submission, and in other instance a paper took over a year to be available online after acceptance.…”