Rankings of information and library science journals by JIF and by h-type indices

Judit Bar-Ilan

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Abstract

In this paper we compute journal rankings in the Information and Library Science JCR category according to the JIF and according to several h-type indices. Even though the correlations between all the ranked lists are very high, there are considerable individual differences between the rankings as can be seen by visual inspection, showing that the correlation measure is not sensitive enough. Thus we also compute other measures, Spearman's footrule and the M-measure that are more sensitive to the differences between the rankings in the sense that the range of values is larger than the range of correlation values when comparing the JIF ranking to the rankings induced by the h-type indices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)141-147
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Informetrics
Volume4
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2010

Keywords

  • Journal impact factor
  • Ranking
  • h-Index
  • h-Type indices

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