2017 Scholar Metrics Released

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2017.

To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.

You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.

Top journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

From the press release: 

The 2017 release, with 2016 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236 disciplines; 81 countries are represented. A total of 132 journals received their first JIF.

Below, top 10 journals for Management by impact factor:

1. Academy of Management Annals

2. Academy of Management Review

3. Journal of Management

4. Academy of Management Journal

5. MIS Quarterly

6. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior

7. Journal of Information Technology

8. Journal of International Business Studies

9. Journal of Supply Chain Management

10. International Journal of Management Reviews

                                               Source: InCites

2016 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016.

This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Marketing category:

1.            Journal of Business Research

2.            Journal of Marketing
3.            Journal of Consumer Research
4.            Industrial Marketing Management
5.            Journal of Marketing Research
6.            Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7.            European Journal of Marketing
8.            Journal of Consumer Psychology
9.            Marketing Science
10.          Journal of Retailing

Browse the top 100 publications

Journal Impact Factor: what - or who - makes a citable item?

In this article from The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis makes a suggestion for an algorithm driven process in determining what makes an item citatable or not. The goal would be to remove human bias as much as possible in selecting what Thomson Reuters considers a citable item.

Citable items are part of the calculations used to create the Journal Impact Factor of academic publications.

Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator

The teaching score: a new metric?

This article from the New York Times present the Open Syllabus Project

The Syllabus Explorer tool lets users search 1 million syllabi, used in the past 10 years, mostly in the US and English speaking countries, and presents a teaching score metric:

"Teaching Score’ (TS) is a numerical indicator of the frequency with which a particular work is taught. Overall Teaching Score is based on the rank of the text among citations in the total collection;"

Top 3 textbooks for Business:

Top 3 textbooks all fields combined: 

2015 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2010 and 2014, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2015. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Game Theory and Decision Science category:

1. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
2. Games and Economic Behavior
3. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
4. arXiv Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
5. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
6. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
7. Experimental Economics
8. Theoretical Economics
9. Decision Sciences
10. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Top journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

From the press release: 

The 2015 release, with 2014 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,149 journal listings in 237 disciplines; 82 countries are represented. A total of 272 journals received their first JIF; 53 percent of journals saw an increase in JIF from last year and 43 percent saw a decrease. Additionally, 39 journals were suppressed to ensure the integrity of the reports. Suppressed journals are re-evaluated after a year for reconsideration in the JCR.

Below, top 10 journals for Management by impact factor, for more, INSEAD community users can login from the Library page here.

1. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS 
2. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 
3. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 
4. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 
5. MIS QUARTERLY 
6. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 
7. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  
8. PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 
9. OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
10. ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

2015 Academic Reputation Survey

Thomson Reuters released its 6th annual Academic Reputation Survey:
“Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation of the World’s Leading Universities”. 

The report analyzes the key trends and shifts in global research influencing institutions’ academic standings. It covers 65,000 academics from 6,500 universities in 105 areas of study.

2015 List of Predatory Publishers

As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.

5th update to the annual list of predatory publishers by J. Beall, librarian from the University of Colorado Denver. In addition the usual lists, there are now a list for Misleading Metrics and one for Hijacked Journals

Top 100 most cited papers

The Journal Nature has partnered with Thomson Reuters Web of Science database to determine the top 100 most cited papers.

Looking at 100 years of data, and the 58 million items stored in the Web of Science database, 3 articles have been cited more than a 100 000 times, all published prior to 1980, all in the biology field.

Google Scholar came up with an alternative ranking, click to see the comparison for 10 papers.

Google Scholar Profiles new look

Google Scholar Profiles have a new look for the new academic year.
Here are some of the new features, read the entire post.

• Publications are taking the center stage
• Aggregate citation metrics are moving to the sidebar
• "Follow" button is in a more prominent spot
• Printing a clean version of your profile is easier

Latest JCR released, see the top journals in your field!

Thomson Reuters has released its latest Journal Citation Report.

You can access this tool on your library page here.

Here are the top 10 journals by impact factor for the Economics category

1. Journal of Economic Literature  
2. Journal of Finance          
3. Quarterly Journal of Economics
4. Journal of Economic Perspective              
5. Transportation Research part b-methodological
6. Journal of Financial Economics  
7. Journal of Political Economy       
8. Review of Financial Studies        
9. Econometrica   
10. Journal of the European Economic Association

2014 Google Scholar Metrics report released

Last month Google Scholar released its Scholar Metrics report for 2014, link to the Business, Economics & Management area.

"This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2013 and covers articles published in 2009–2013."

You can filter down the results by 8 broad areas and 253 specific categories. You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics.

Here is a view for the Finance category

Librarians and Impact

Elsevier's infographic "tells the story of how librarians are working with researchers and the research office to measure research impact and to explore the application of these measurements"

See more 

ISNI: International Standard Name Identifier

Author name disambiguation has become increasingly important with the rise of bibliometrics.


This article/interview from the Scholarly Kitchen by Todd Carpenter explains the goal of ISNI: the International Standard Name Identifier initiative and its relationship with the existing ORCID (see this post).

Can tweets really predict citations?

In contrast with the article 'Can tweets predict citations' a recent study finds very little correlation between the number of tweets received by articles in the biomedical literature and later citation counts obtained from more traditional methods.
Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

See also, Nature's article:
Twitter buzz about papers does not mean citations later

Google Scholar Library

A new initiative from Scholar:

"Google Scholar library is your personal collection of articles. You can save articles right off the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar search to quickly find just the one you want "

Read this page detailed help to get started.
This could potentially become a threat to free citation management software such as Zotero and Mendeley as mentioned in a post from 'The Distant Librarian' .

Google Scholar Metrics

The 2013 version of Scholar Metrics was released on July 24, 2013. It covers articles published between 2008 and 2012.

'Scholar Metrics currently cover articles published between 2008 and 2012, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in July 2013. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics.'

More information... 

Altmetrics - an overview

Richard Cave, Director of IT and Computer Operations, Public Library of Science has released a paper titled: Overview of the Altmetrics Landscape.

Definition from the Altmetrics website

"Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship."

AJ Cann via Flickr

Elsevier buys Mendeley

While acknowledging Elsevier's recurrent issues in Academia the Mendeley team gives the reason behind the deal.

Press Release from Mendeley.

Press Release from Elsevier.