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Casting a wide net: the Journal Impact Factor numerator
Author(s) -
HUBBARD Stephen C.,
McVEIGH Marie E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/20110208
Subject(s) - impact factor , computer science , citation , search engine indexing , order (exchange) , information retrieval , factor (programming language) , library science , operations research , data science , mathematics , political science , economics , law , programming language , finance
All metrics published in the Journal Citation Reports™ are dependent on the complete and correct aggregation of citations to each journal title. Here, we explain how unique cited titles are created for Thomson Reuters indexing, and how variations and ambiguities in titles are collected in order to create the Journal Impact Factor numerator.