Haustein Multidimensional Journal Evaluation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-025555-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Analyzing Scientific Periodicals beyond the Impact Factor
E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten
Reihe: Knowledge and Information
ISBN: 978-3-11-025555-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures the average number of citations per article in a certain time window, it can be argued that it does not reflect the actual value of a periodical. This book defines five dimensions, which build a framework for a multidimensional method of journal evaluation. The author is winner of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship 2011.
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Information Scientists, Academic Libraries, Students of Librarianship and Information Science, Colleges/Universities and Research Facilities
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Contents;6
2;Chapter 1 Introduction;10
2.1;1.1 The Scholarly Journal;13
2.1.1;1.1.1 Definitions;13
2.1.2;1.1.2 Emergence and Development;14
2.2;1.2 Application and Developments of Journal Evaluation;16
2.3;1.3 Multidimensional Journal Evaluation;21
2.3.1;1.3.1 Inability of a Single Metric;21
2.3.2;1.3.2 Multidimensionality;22
2.4;1.4 Case Study;26
2.5;References;28
3;Chapter 2 Journal Output;32
3.1;2.1 Output Indicators;34
3.1.1;2.1.1 Number of Issues and Documents;34
3.1.2;2.1.2 Document Length;37
3.1.3;2.1.3 Document Titles;41
3.1.4;2.1.4 Document Types;41
3.1.5;2.1.5 References;44
3.1.6;2.1.6 Publishing Language;54
3.2;2.2 Producers of Output;57
3.2.1;2.2.1 Authors;58
3.2.2;2.2.2 Institutions;70
3.2.3;2.2.3 Countries;72
3.3;Summary;77
3.4;References;79
4;Chapter 3 Journal Content;86
4.1;3.1 Digression: Indexing Methods;87
4.1.1;3.1.1 Classification Systems and Thesauri;89
4.1.2;3.1.2 Human vs. Automatic Indexing;92
4.1.3;3.1.3 Author Keywords;94
4.1.4;3.1.4 Citation Indexing;95
4.1.5;3.1.5 Key Words Plus;99
4.1.6;3.1.6 Social Tagging;100
4.2;3.2 Level of Analysis;103
4.2.1;3.2.1 Journal Level;103
4.2.2;3.2.2 Article Level;113
4.3;3.3 Content Trend Analysis;147
4.4;3.4 Content Similarity Analysis;152
4.4.1;3.4.1 Bibliographic Coupling and Co-Citations;152
4.4.2;3.4.2 Co-word Analysis;153
4.4.3;3.4.3 Co-occurrence of Users and Tags;156
4.5;Summary;160
4.6;References;162
5;Chapter 4 Journal Perception and Usage;172
5.1;4.1 Reader Surveys;174
5.1.1;4.1.1 Journal Rankings;175
5.1.2;4.1.2 Demographic Readership Analysis;177
5.2;4.2 Download Data;178
5.2.1;4.2.1 Local Usage Data;180
5.2.2;4.2.2 Global Usage Data;193
5.2.3;4.2.3 Download-based Usage Indicators;201
5.3;4.3 Usage Data from Social Bookmarking;207
5.3.1;4.3.1 Data Collection;208
5.3.2;4.3.2 Bookmarking Indicators;217
5.3.3;4.3.3 Comparison with Citation Indicators;220
5.4;Summary;221
5.5;References;224
6;Chapter 5 Journal Citations;232
6.1;5.1 Basic Indicators;238
6.1.1;5.1.1 Mean Citation Rates;241
6.1.2;5.1.2 Distribution-based Indicators;253
6.1.3;5.1.3 H-index;259
6.1.4;5.1.4 Time-based Indicators;262
6.1.5;5.1.5 Citing Sources;268
6.2;5.2 Weighted Indicators;272
6.2.1;5.2.1 Influence Weight and Influence per Publication;273
6.2.2;5.2.2 Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score;274
6.2.3;5.2.3 SCImago Journal Rank;278
6.3;5.3 Normalized Indicators;283
6.3.1;5.3.1 Cited-side Normalization;284
6.3.2;5.3.2 Citing-side Normalization;288
6.4;Summary;298
6.5;References;300
7;Chapter 6 Journal Management;310
7.1;6.1 General Journal Characteristics;310
7.1.1;6.1.1 Age and Publication History;311
7.1.2;6.1.2 Publisher Affiliation;315
7.1.3;6.1.3 Scope;316
7.2;6.2 Composition of the Editorial Board;319
7.2.1;6.2.1 Size;320
7.2.2;6.2.2 Internationally;322
7.3;6.3 From Submission to Publication;326
7.3.1;6.3.1 Review Process;328
7.3.2;6.3.2 Publication Delay;333
7.3.3;6.3.3 Rejection Rate;338
7.3.4;6.3.4 Correction Rate;345
7.4;6.4 The Publishing Market;346
7.4.1;6.4.1 Production Costs;348
7.4.2;6.4.2 Financial Models;349
7.4.3;6.4.3 Journal Prices;356
7.5;Summary;365
7.6;References;367
8;Chapter 7 Conclusions and Outlook;376
8.1;7.1 The Author’s Perspective;378
8.2;7.2 The Reader’s Perspective;380
8.3;7.3 The Librarian’s Perspective;385
8.4;7.4 The Editor’s and Publisher’s Perspectives;387
8.5;7.5 Outlook;389
8.6;References;391
9;List of Abbreviations;392
10;List of Figures;396
11;List of Tables;400
12;Author Index;402
13;Subject Index;412