Mutz, Rüdiger; Daniel, Hans-Dieter - In: Journal of Informetrics 6 (2012) 2, pp. 169-176
The journal impact factor (JIF) proposed by Garfield in the year 1955 is one of the most prominent and common measures of the prestige, position, and importance of a scientific journal. The JIF may profit from its comprehensibility, robustness, methodological reproducibility, simplicity, and...