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Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF

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The ThomsonReuters impact factor is a viable, widely used and informative measure of journal visibility and frequency of use. It is accurate, transparent and easy to use. It is a live and evolving system, that can broaden its scope and implement new features and methods. Some of Vanclay’s suggestions, like wider use of order statistics, or our suggestion of rank normalization might be implemented by JCR in the future.

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  • Pudovkin, A. I., & Garfield, E. (2004). Rank-normalized impact factor: a way to compare journal performance across subject categories. Proceedings of The Asist Annual Meeting, Vol 41 (pp. 507-515). doi:10.1002/meet.1450410159.

  • Vanclay, J. K. (2012). Impact factor: outdated artifact or stepping-stone to journal certification? Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0561-0.

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  1. Institute of Marine Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 690041

    A. I. Pudovkin

  2. ThomsonReuters—Professional (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information), 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, USA

    Eugene Garfield

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Pudovkin, A.I., Garfield, E. Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay’s dilemma with TRIF. Scientometrics 92, 409–412 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0634-8

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