How to Improve the Citation Impact of a Paper: Choice of Journal, Co-authors and Institutional Addresses.

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Gomes, JANF (Author) FCUP; Vieira, ES (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2009 - 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOL 1

Pages: 31-39

12th International Conference of the International-Society-for-Scientometrics-and-Informetrics

Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, JUL 14-17, 2009

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Authenticus ID: P-003-RR2

Abstract (EN): This paper attempts at correlating the citation impact of Physics and Chemistry documents in the Web of Science with some parameters of the source, namely the impact factor of the journal, the number of co-authors and the number of institutional addresses. After a comparison of the distribution functions of the 5-year citations of the 2004 Physics and Chemistry documents, a detailed study of the correlation between the citation counts and the three parameters above is presented. There is a striking similarity between the properties found for Physics and Chemistry but for the occurrence of a small but meaningful number of Physics documents with an extremely high number of co-authors and institutional addresses. The average number of citations may double as the number of co-authors increases within its more common range.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9