The probability of publishing in first-quartile journals

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• 作者：Weishu Liu ; Guangyuan Hu ; Mengdi Gu
• 关键词：Impact factor ; JIF quartile ; Journal Citation Reports ; Research evaluation
• 刊名：Scientometrics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：106
• 期：3
• 页码：1273-1276
• 全文大小：444 KB
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• 作者单位：Weishu Liu (1)
  Guangyuan Hu (2)
  Mengdi Gu (1)
  
  1. Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200052, China
  2. School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433, China
  
• 刊物主题：Information Storage and Retrieval; Library Science; Interdisciplinary Studies;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1588-2861

文摘

As an alternative metric of journal impact factor (JIF), journal impact factor quartile is increasingly adopted to compare the research impact of journals within and across different domains. We adopt both optimistic and pessimistic approaches to illustrate the JIF distributions of journals listed in the 2015 Journal Citation Reports. We find that at least one-third of Web of Science publications are actually published in the first quartile (high impact factor journals). In comparison, at most 16.5 % of publications are published in the fourth quartile (low impact factor journals). We argue that Bornmann and Marx’s (Scientometrics 98(1):487–509, 2014) claim that “One can expect that 25 % of a researcher’s publications have been published in the first quartile” is not precise.