The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor
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The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor.
P rogress in science is driven by the publication of novel ideas and experiments, most usually in peer-reviewed journals, but nowadays increasingly just on the internet. We all have our own ideas of which are the most influential journals, but is there a simple statistical metric of the influence of a journal? Most scientists would immediately say Impact Factor (IF), which is published online i...
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tiendo podrían beneficiarse varias revistas españolas (entre l factor de impacto (FI), que mide la importancia de una publiación científica, es calculado anualmente por el Instituto ara la Información Científica (Institute for Scientific Informaion [ISI], Thomson-Reuters) para aquellas publicaciones a las ue da seguimiento y que son recogidas en un informe de itas llamado Journal Citation Repor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903307106