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- Title
Alternative journal impact factors in open access publishing.
- Authors
Xia, Jingfeng; Smith, Megan P.
- Abstract
Very little research has been conducted to investigate new journal impact factors that have emerged to rank open access (OA) journals as an alternative to the Journal Citation Reports and SCImago Journal & Country Rank. The few existing studies have found these metrics misleading. Our study examined the criteria used by these impact factors to see whether they are fake metrics or represent early efforts for developing new standards to advance journal evaluations. We analysed as many available alternative impact factors as possible and discovered that their methodologies were either unreproducible or based on unreliable or opaque criteria. We hope this study will help shed light on the ecosystem of OA publishing and identify both possibly unprofessional behaviours and potential improvements in bibliometric algorithms.
- Subjects
OPEN access publishing; IMPACT factor (Citation analysis); SCHOLARLY periodicals; JOURNAL productivity; CITATION analysis
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 4, p403
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/leap.1200