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Measuring impact of electronic Publications on scholarly communication using bibliometric analysis

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2003, 20(3), pp.3~49
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2003.20.3.031
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 7, 2003
  • Accepted : September 3, 2003
  • Published : September 30, 2003

Shin, Eun-Ja 1

1세종대학교

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ABSTRACT

Electronic publications, including e-journals, show a rapid expansion due to its several advantages for the academic and research community. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of e-journals on scholarly communication. The impact factors and immediacy indices were provided via JCR social science edition have been used to conduct a series of analysis on three subject fields, economics, law and psychology. The data from the last eight years show that the impact factors of e-journals have not changed, but immediacy indices have intensely increased in recent two years. Significant increase of immediacy indices is probably due to prevalence of e-journals or electronic sources of articles. The result reveals that e-journals play an important role in speeding up the scholarly communication. It is expected that the findings of this study can contribute to more efficient management of the digital libraries.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.