Research Methodology-02: Quality Indices

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Dr. Chetan B. Bhatt
Professor and Head,
Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,
Chandkheda, Ahmedabad
Quality Indices

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 Unit-IV: Research Publication & Presentation:
 Thesis, Research paper, Review Article & Technical
Reports: Organizati...

Presentation Outline
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 Why quality indices?
 Journal Quality Indices
 Impact factor
 Immediacy Index
 EigenFactor
 ...

Research Process
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Identify
Topic of
Interest
State
Unsolved
Problem
s
Find or
Develop
Solution
Generate
Related
Question
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Research Process
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Identify
Topic of
Interest
State
Unsolved
Problem
s
Find or
Develop
Solution
Generate
Related
Question
...

Historical note
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 There are three factors that led to development of
citation indexing back in 1950’s –
1. Followed by W...

Historical development
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 The Impact Factor was developed by Eugene
Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific...

Why?
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 Evaluate the scholarly worth of a journal
 Rank journals within a discipline
 Help you decide where to publish ...

Why?
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 Below are some examples* –
 In England, hiring panels routinely consider impact
factors
 By Spanish law, resear...

Journal Quality Indices
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Journal Quality Indices
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 Following are quality indices commonly used
for journals
 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science)
...

Impact Factor (IF)
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 The impact factor is a measure reflecting the
average number of citations to articles published
in...

Web of Science
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Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) has one,
huge database, Web of Science, that…
 Indexes selected journals...

Where do we find Impact Factors?
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 Impact factors are listed in Journal Citation
Reports JCR)
 You can easily get to t...

Journal Citation Report
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 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual
publication by the Healthcare & Science division
...

Calculation of Impact Factor
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Calculation of Impact Factor
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 In a given year, the impact factor of a journal is the
average number of citations recei...

Criticism of Impact Factor
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 Only a limited subset of journals is indexed by ISI
 Only uses the articles cited by the ...

Criticism of Impact Factor
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 Includes self-citations, that is articles in which the
article cites other papers in the s...

Immediacy Index
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 An immediacy index is a measure of how topical
and urgent work published in a scientific journal
is.
...

Calculation
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 The immediacy index is calculated based on the
papers published in a journal in a single calendar
year. F...

EigenFactor
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 The Eigenfactor Project is a non-commercial
academic research project sponsored by the
Bergstrom lab in t...

Calculation of Eigenfactor
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 Uses similar algorithm as Google’s PageRank
 By this approach, journals are considered to...

Comments on Eigenfactor score
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 Eigenfactor Score: … the higher the better
 For a journal, the number of times article...

Article Influence
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 The Article Influence score measures the average
influence, per article, of the papers in a journal...

Comments on Article Influence
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 Article Influence Score: … the higher the
better
 The average influence, per article, ...

Where to look for EF and AI?
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 Let us we look at EF and AI for control journals
 Open http://eigenfactor.org
 Choose ...

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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 Developed by Professors Félix de Moya,
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric
bas...

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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 The citation PageRank of a journal calculated on
the basis of the Scopus citation data div...

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Algorithm
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 The SJR indicator, which is inspired by the
PageRank algorithm, was developed fo...

Scimago other ranking
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 The Scimago also rank institute, and country
for scientific research work.
 Download this free...

Comparing IF, EF, Scimago
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 Higher is better in all the cases
Journal
JCR
Journal
Impact
Factor
(2 year)
JCR
Journal
Im...

Quality Indices for Author
(journal)
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H - index
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 Proposed by JE Hirsch as an index to quantify an
individual's scientific research output
Remember, Impact F...

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 The index is based on the distribution of citations
received by a given researcher's publications.
Hirsch writes:
 A...

Calculating H - index
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 h-index is automatically calculated:
 Web of Science
 Scopus
 Publish or Perish (free downlo...

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 10
 1 – 50
 2 – 30
 3 – 10
 4 – 5
 5 – 2
 6 – 1
 7 – 1
 8 – 2
 9 – 0
 10 - 1

Determining H - index
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Finding a h-index value in
Web of Science
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Citation Report (h-index) from Web of Science
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Finding a h-index value in
Scopus
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Citation Overview (h-index) from Scopus
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Graph of h-Index from Scopus
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G - index
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 The g-index is an index for quantifying scientific
productivity based on publication record. It was
suggest...

H-b index
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 The h-b-index is an extension of the h-index
 The h-b-index developed by Michael Banks of
the Max Planck I...

H-b index
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 The h-index defined by J. Hirsch is:
 A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at
least h ci...

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THANK you for your
kind attention

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