Net Impact Factor and Immediacy Index of ten frontline ISI journals: A case study based on citations to in-press or unpublished articles

Prakasan, E. R. and Anil Sagar, * and Kalyane, V. L. and Vijai Kumar, * Net Impact Factor and Immediacy Index of ten frontline ISI journals: A case study based on citations to in-press or unpublished articles., 2006 [Preprint]

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The study has made efforts to identify some journals, from which many "in-press" or "unpublished" items are highly cited and find out, if they had counted for a particular year in JCR, how much net effect they can make on Impact Factor and Immediacy Index of those journals.

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	in-press articles, unpublished articles, citations, journal impact factor, journal immediacy index, Journal Citation Reports, JCR, Science Citation Index, SCI, Physical Review B, Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review E, Langmuir, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information. B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	E.R. Prakasan
Date deposited:	13 Nov 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:05
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8383

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ISI, Philadelphia (2004) Journal Citation Reports. http://scientific.thomson.com/products/jcr/ accessed on 14-03-06.

Leff, Donna (2005) Making an impact - the rise of the impact factor as a measure of journal quality. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 105(1); pp. 29-30

Sarasvady, S. and Pichappan, P. (2001) Classification of multidisciplinary journals: the study of the journal ‘Nature’. 8th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Sydney, July 16 - 20, 2001.

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