Journal Impact Factor Visualisation

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/journal-impact-factor-visualisation/
Whilst looking around for inspiration for things that could go into a mashup to jazz up the OU repository, I came across the rather wonderful eigenfactor.org which provides an alternative (the “eigenfactor”) to the Thompson Scientific Impact Factor measure of academic journal “weight”.
The site provides a range of graphical tools for exploring the relative impact [...]

Eigenfactor

http://www.eigenfactor.org/

The EigenfactorTM algorithm ranks journals much as Google ranks websites.

Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of [...]

TR CITATION IMPACT CENTER

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/citationimpactcenter/
new items added to the blog are
Preserving the Integrity of The Journal Impact Factor Guidelines from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters
H-index: The hottest topic in information science today
Thomson Scientific Speaks with David Tempest, Elsevier
Thomson Scientific speaks with Jim Testa, Thomson Scientific’s Director of Editorial Development, about Impact Factor
Thomson [...]

Taylor & Francis Group achieves impressive growth in the annual Journal Citation Reports

ou may be interested in the following Press Release from Taylor & Francis Group. Please accept my apologies for cross-posting:
Oxford, UK, 10th July , 2008 –Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Psychology Press have increased the number of titles listed in Thomson Reuter’s 2007 Journal Citation Reports by over 10% compared to 2006.  Taylor & Francis [...]

ERA Journal Access

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/
The intent of this page is to provide a quick, efficient access to the over 21,000 records which constitute the ERA journal ranking list.
Ranking list is as available (ARC URL below) at June 2008.
Select Access Method

By Field of Research
By all or part of journal name

This service is provided by John Lamp who can [...]

Consultation on the Research Outlet Rankings

http://www.arc.gov.au/era/indicators.htm
The ERA initiative will use a range of indicators and other proxies to support the evaluation of research excellence. One of these indicators is discipline-specific tiered outlet rankings.
The ARC is now seeking feedback from the sector to assist with the development of research journal rankings, a subset of tiered outlet rankings.  [...]

The Import Of Impact: New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8621sci1.html
Observations drawn from the U.K. experience should help clarify exactly how large a role citation metrics should play in the research sector.

Soft peer review? Social software and distributed scientific evaluation

http://nitens.org/docs/spr_coop08.pdf
Abstract The debate on the prospects of peer-review in the Internet age and the
increasing criticism leveled against the dominant role of impact factor
indicators are calling for new measurable criteria to assess scientific quality.
Usage-based metrics offer a new avenue to scientific quality assessment but
face the same risks as first generation search engines that used unreliable
metrics (such [...]

Differences in Impact Factor Across Fields and Over Time

http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/dwp/2008-4-23/
ABSTRACT:
The impact factor of an academic journal for any year is the number of times the average article published in that journal in the previous two years are cited in that year. From 1994-2005, the average impact factor of journals listed by the ISI has been increasing by an average of 2.6 [...]

Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor

in FASEB Journal, Published online before print April 11, 2008 as doi: 10.1096/fj.08-107938.
We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF).
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