Re: Measuring citations

[Aline Soules <aline.soules@csueastbay.edu>]

Lately, there have been several attempts to clarify the true 
impact of journals.  MESUR is one such important effort 
(http://www.mesur.org/MESUR.html).  Johan Bollen spoke about this 
project at a NISO/BISG meeting at ALA a couple of years ago.  I 
recommend this effort as worth your consideration.

Aline Soules
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA  94542
aline.soules@csueastbay.edu

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Joseph Esposito 
<espositoj@gmail.com>wrote:

> Phil Davis on the methodologies of measuring journals' impact
> factors:
>
> http://bit.ly/kxcRF2
>
> and the long link:
>
>
> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/06/13/anticipating-the-2010-impact-factor/
>
> Davis notes that the devil is in the details.  Publishers can
> influence those details in various ways.  For example, it is
> amusing to see in this piece one of the reasons that publishers
> invest so much in copy-editing (it can lead to higher citation
> counts).
>
> Joe Esposito