… applications for funding and the best papers to publish in a journal. It is hard to test this aim
… in which he alone decided which of a consecutive series of papers submitted to the journal …

… writing is terse, knowledge of details not usually included in journal presen tations may
influence the reader's re sponse to an article. Thirdly, profes sional age (number of years past Ph.…

… use of these terms in medical and … in medical and science journals, language and terminology
must be accurate, clear, and precise and must reflect fairness, equity, and consistency in …

… Similarly, the citation rate of a scientific journal—known as the journal impact factor—can
be calculated as the mean citation rate of all the articles contained in the journal.4 …

… included social research), and impact factor (ie, whether journal had sufficient … 11 journals
that clearly stated, in their scope, that they accepted social science research and the journal …

… difficulties in fields whose literature differs in nature from scientific … based on international
journal literature indexed in the SSCI, … In the social sciences indexed English language journal …

… TOWARD A METRIC OF SCIENCE REVISITED1 … increase in quantitative material on the
state-of-the art in science and … that journal publications are challenged as the ‘gold standard’in …

… In addition to science citation indicators of journals like impact and immediacy, … journals
included in the Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences …

… in 1970, the Institute for Scienti‘c Information, a private ‘rm in Philadelphia, agreed to include
the journal in its Science Citation Index. … we receive in core life science journals is appalling, …

… numbers of all scientific journals which had been in existence in the period covered, not only
the journals still being published. However, this is not a major source of error. In 1963 Price …