NDLI: Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Smith, Derek R.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Few contemporary inventions have influenced academic publishing as much as journal impact factors. On the other hand, debates and discussion on the potential limitations of, and appropriate uses for, journal performance indicators are almost as long as the history of the measures themselves. Given that scientometrics is often undertaken using bibliometric techniques, the history of the former is inextricably linked to the latter. As with any controversy it is difficult to separate an invention from its history, and for these reasons, the current article provides an overview of some key historical events of relevance to the impact factor. When he first proposed the concept over half a century ago, Garfield did not realise that impact factors would one day become the subject of such widespread controversy. As the current Special Issue of Scientometrics suggests, this debate continues today.
Starting Page	419
Ending Page	427
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	92
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15882861
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-03-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Impact factor History Bibliometrics Scientometrics Citation indexing Interdisciplinary Studies Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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