Comments on: Impact factors and Scimago JR compared http://wowter.net/2008/01/14/impact-factors-and-scimago-jr-compared/ Comments on the library and information science world Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: TeethTalk » Blog Archive » Journal ranking alternatives to the journal impact factor http://wowter.net/2008/01/14/impact-factors-and-scimago-jr-compared/#comment-238 TeethTalk » Blog Archive » Journal ranking alternatives to the journal impact factor Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:47:40 +0000 http://wowter.net/2008/01/14/impact-factors-and-scimago-jr-compared/#comment-238 [...] Further reading about SJR [...] […] Further reading about SJR […]

]]> By: Hugo Besemer http://wowter.net/2008/01/14/impact-factors-and-scimago-jr-compared/#comment-218 Hugo Besemer Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:06:19 +0000 http://wowter.net/2008/01/14/impact-factors-and-scimago-jr-compared/#comment-218 We said we should continue online the discussion that we had informally about this. My question was: what do you want to proof? You show a significant correlation between impact factors and the rank in Scimago. It is still better if you omit "outlying" results (I remember from the time when I did research on cocoa pollinating midges that that usually did the trick :=)) It seems to indicate that Impact factors and Scimago ranks are to some degree interchangeable, but we should know more about the nature of the outliers. Maybe it is good if more people from the readership of this blog would do comparable tests for their field of work Hugo We said we should continue online the discussion that we had informally about this.
My question was: what do you want to proof? You show a significant correlation between impact factors and the rank in Scimago. It is still better if you omit “outlying” results (I remember from the time when I did research on cocoa pollinating midges that that usually did the trick :=))
It seems to indicate that Impact factors and Scimago ranks are to some degree interchangeable, but we should know more about the nature of the outliers.
Maybe it is good if more people from the readership of this blog would do comparable tests for their field of work

Hugo

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