Proof over promise: Moving citation metric systems beyond journal impact towards a career impact approach.

Harzing, Anne-Wil and Mijnhardt, Wilfred (2014) Proof over promise: Moving citation metric systems beyond journal impact towards a career impact approach. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (17 Sep 2014). Website.

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Publishing in a high-impact journal carries the implicit promise that the article will also be highly cited. But the proof of this logic remains unsubstantiated. By combining more accurate citation metrics, like the hIa-index and the citation-per-author-per-year metric, Anne-Wil Harzing and Wilfred Mijnhardt provide a more substantial alternative to the narrow journal-based metric. This combined metric provides a more reliable comparison between academics in different disciplines and at different career stages.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2017 09:28
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 19:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71605

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