@misc{vanclay-2006,
	title = {Bias in the journal impact factor},
	author = {Jerome K. Vanclay},
	url = {http://www.citebase.org/abstract?id=oai:arXiv.org:cs/0612091},
	year = {2006},
	biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f394bf69ac606e10450b42c328a8f8ae/stefano},
	description = {[cs/0612091] Bias in the journal impact factor},
	abstract = {The ISI journal impact factor (JIF) is based on a sample that may represent half the whole-of-life citations to some journals, but a small fraction (<10\%) of the citations accruing to other journals. This disproportionate sampling means that the JIF provides a misleading indication of the true impact of journals, biased in favour of journals that have a rapid rather than a prolonged impact. Many journals exhibit a consistent pattern of citation accrual from year to year, so it may be possible to adjust the JIF to provide a more reliable indication of a journal's impact.},
	keywords = {impact_factor }
}