Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor

@article{citeulike:2945527, abstract = {A new approach to the field normalization of the classical journal impact factor is introduced. This approach, called the audience factor, takes into consideration the citing propensity of journals for a given cited journal, specifically, the mean number of references of each citing journal, and fractionally weights the citations from those citing journals. Hence, the audience factor is a variant of a fractional citation-counting scheme, but computed on the citing journal rather than the citing article or disciplinary level, and, in contrast to other cited-side normalization strategies, is focused on the behavior of the citing entities. A comparison with standard journal impact factors from Thomson Reuters shows a more diverse representation of fields within various quintiles of impact, significant movement in rankings for a number of individual journals, but nevertheless a high overall correlation with standard impact factors.}, address = {Lereco U-1134, SAE2 department, INRA La G\'{e}raudi\`{e}re, La G\'{e}raudi\`{e}re BP71627, 44316 Nantes, France, and Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), 93 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris, France; Thomson Reuters, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104}, author = {Zitt, Michel and Small, Henry }, citeulike-article-id = {2945527}, doi = {10.1002/asi.20880}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {factory, impoact, journal, ranking}, number = {9999}, pages = {NA+}, posted-at = {2008-06-30 18:01:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20880}, volume = {9999}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2945527 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2945527 TI - Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology VL - 9999 IS - 9999 SP - NA AD - Lereco U-1134, SAE2 department, INRA La Géraudière, La Géraudière BP71627, 44316 Nantes, France, and Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), 93 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris, France; Thomson Reuters, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 N2 - A new approach to the field normalization of the classical journal impact factor is introduced. This approach, called the audience factor, takes into consideration the citing propensity of journals for a given cited journal, specifically, the mean number of references of each citing journal, and fractionally weights the citations from those citing journals. Hence, the audience factor is a variant of a fractional citation-counting scheme, but computed on the citing journal rather than the citing article or disciplinary level, and, in contrast to other cited-side normalization strategies, is focused on the behavior of the citing entities. A comparison with standard journal impact factors from Thomson Reuters shows a more diverse representation of fields within various quintiles of impact, significant movement in rankings for a number of individual journals, but nevertheless a high overall correlation with standard impact factors. KW - factory KW - impoact KW - journal KW - ranking AU - Zitt, Michel AU - Small, Henry PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20880 ER -