Not exact matches
For biomedical scientists, the
average impact is about a 10 % penalty on future
citations to prior papers, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper posted in May.
Weighting
citations by field revealed that Iran - U.S. collaborations in medicine and computer science had the highest
impact, on
average.
Weighted RCR is essentially defining an
average paper's scientific
impact based on actual
citations as 1 (normalized by research field), and a given scientist's output can be compared against the
average by adding together the
citation count for that scientist's papers to give the Weighted RCR over a given period of time).
The
impact factor is a measure of the
average number of
citations per article, so the higher the number, the more «important» the journal is to the scientific community in that field.
At the same time, the journal in many fields grew into the primary measure of reputation, as journal ranking could be carefully calculated by
Impact Factor (
average number of times an article is cited within a two - year period), in way not possible with books (for which there was no
citation index).
The
Impact Factor shows the
average number of
citations to articles in each journal (
citations to a journal divided by the number of articles the journal published).
The
Impact Factor shows the
average number of
citations to articles in each journal (
citations to a journal divided by the number... [more]
Impact factor refers to the
average number of
citations to the articles in a journal.