The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor

Current methods of measuring the quality of journals assume that citations of articles within journals are normally distributed. Furthermore using journal impact factors to measure the quality of individual articles is flawed if citations are not uniformly spread between articles. The aim of this st...

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Published in:	BMC medical research methodology Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 14
Main Authors:	Weale, Andy R, Bailey, Mick, Lear, Paul A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England BioMed Central 28.05.2004 BMC
Subjects:	Abstracting and Indexing as Topic - methods Abstracting and Indexing as Topic - standards Bibliometrics Periodicals as Topic - standards Periodicals as Topic - statistics & numerical data Quality Control
ISSN:	1471-2288, 1471-2288
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