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The impact factor, total citations, and better citation mouse traps: A commentary

✍ Scribed by Stephen J. Bensman


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
205 KB
Volume
58
Category
Article
ISSN
1532-2882

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

This communication comments upon the article “Measuring the Utility of Journals in the Crime‐Psychology Field: Beyond the Impact Factor” by Walters (2006), recently published in JASIST. Walters' article is utilized as a vehicle to demonstrate certain misconceptions and incorrect value judgments common to the literature on the impact factor, arising from a lack of understanding of this measure's role in the thought structure of its creator, Eugene Garfield, as well as of his utilization of this measure.


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