Tucci, Marco p.; Fontani, Sandra; Ferrini, Silvia - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2008
As pointed out in Amin e Mabe (2000, p. 1), the journal impact factor (IF) “has moved in recent years from an obscure bibliometric indicator to become the chief quantitative measure of the quality of a journal, its research papers, the researchers who wrote those papers, and even the...