Journal Scholar: una alternativa internacional, gratuita y de libre acceso para medir el impacto de las revistas de Arte, Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
| Main Authors: | Delgado-Lopez-Cozar, Emilio, Orduña-Malea, Enrique, Marcos Cartagena, Diego, Contreras-Jiménez, Evaristo, Ruiz-Pérez, Rafael |
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| Format: | Journal NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | es |
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, 2012
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/18906/1/journal-scholar.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/18906/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The EC3 Research Group of the University of Granada presents a prototype of the JOURNAL SCHOLAR, a bibliometric index which intends to measure the performance of scientific journals in the fields of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences by counting publications and citations through Google Scholar. The indicators used are the H-index and the G-index. Journals are ranked in quartiles and the citation windows ranges from 5 to 10 years for international or regional rankings. Data was retrieved on 10-15 July, 2011. We computed the H-index and the G-index of 462 journals. We conclude comparing the coverage and results offered by SCOPUS and WoS. JOURNAL SCHOLAR quadraples the coverage and reduces English-language biases. As it identifies more citations, the H-indexes are higher (an average of 44% higher than in SCOPUS and 77% than Web of Science) allowing to discriminate better the journals' positioning in the ranking. In order to show this tool's functionalities we present the results for Information and Library Science, offering a ranking of de 462 journals edited in 59 countries. We conclude that it is feasible and viable to generate bibliometric tools using Google Scholar. Despite its lack of control (selecting sources and normalizing data) we obtain reasonable results as valid and reliable as those from SCOPUS and WoS. And with a lesser cost than with the traditional bibliometric tools - considering the great cost of these tools elaborated by Thomson Reuters and Elsevier-.