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A Study on Journal Impact Measurement with Hirsch-type Indices

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2010, 27(1), pp.269~287
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2010.27.1.269
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 27, 2010
  • Accepted : March 14, 2010
  • Published : March 30, 2010

Kim, Pan Jun 1 Lee, Jae Yun 2

1경제․인문사회연구회
2경기대학교

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ABSTRACT

The journal impact factor(JIF) of the Thomson Reuters(ISI) has been widely used to assess the impact of journal as well as its quality. However, the JIF contains its critical limitation, in which it does not measure the impact of journal but the average impact of articles in journal. Besides significant number of problems of the JIF has been noticed. Furthermore, given the limited coverage of domestic citation index database in comparison to those of international citation index, it is necessary to apply a more appropriate index with a high level of discriminating power. This study, therefore, aims to introduce some practical methods to measure the impact of domestic journals by using the Hirsch-type indices. As the Hirsch-type indices has been often used for overcoming the limitations of the JIF in worldwide, we hope that our research outcome offers an effective alternative to gauge the impact of journals more accurately. Consequently, using the variations of the h-index(hs-index, fs-index) or the sum of issue level(issue based h-index, issue based f-index), we argue that it would improve the discrimination capacity of the Hirsch-type indices significantly and that we can measure the impact of domestic journals more clearly.

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