The bibliometric measure impact factor is a leading indicator of journal influence, and impact factors are routinely used in making decisions ranging from selecting journal subscriptions to allocating research funding to deciding tenure cases. Yet journal impact factors have increased gradually over time, and moreover impact factors vary widely across academic disciplines. Here we quantify infl...

This study investigated the determinants of dividends policy in the Nigerian stock exchange market. To achieve the objectives of this study, a total of 50 listed firms in the Nigerian stock exchange market were selected and analyzed for the study using the judgmental sampling technique. Also, the corporate annual reports for the period 2006-2011 were used for the study. The paper was basically ...

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Publication impact factors are more important now than 10 or 20 years ago, both for individual researchers and for journals. Citation indices such as Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge, (http://wokinfo.com/) or Publish or Perish (www.harzing.com, based on Google Scholar scholar.google.com) are standardly consulted by job selection committees prior to interviewing candidates.1 Indiv...

Analysis of anomalies reported during testing of a project can tell a lot about how well the processes and products work. Still, organizations rarely use anomaly reports for more than progress tracking although projects commonly spend a significant part of the development time on finding and correcting faults. This paper presents an anomaly metrics model that organizations can use for identifyi...

Several citation-based indicators, including patent h-index, have been introduced to evaluate the patenting activities of research organizations. However, variants developed to complement h-index have not been utilized yet in the domain of intellectual property management. The main purpose of this study is to propose new indices that can be used to evaluate the patenting activities of research ...

This paper examines the possibility of automatic extraction of future stock price information from the annual Form 10-K produced by publicly traded companies in the United States of America. While previous approaches to automatically interpreting corporate documents have tended to utilize extensive expert knowledge to preprocess and analyze documents, our approach inputs documents verbatim to a...