Distributional differences of the impact factor in the sciences versus the social sciences: An analysis of the probabilistic structure of the 2005 journal citation reports

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Structure of the impact factor of journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index: Citations from documents labeled “editorial material”

✍ Lidia González; Juan Miguel Campanario 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 248 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract We investigated how citations from documents labeled by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as “editorial material” contribute to the impact factor of academic journals in which they were published. Our analysis is based on records corresponding to the documents classified by