%0 Journal Article %1 thelwall2012journal %A Thelwall, Mike %D 2012 %I Springer Netherlands %J Scientometrics %K evaluation impact journal scientometrics web %N 2 %P 429--441 %R 10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x %T Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x %V 92 %X In theory, the web has the potential to provide information about the wider impact of academic research, beyond traditional scholarly impact. This is because the web can reflect non-scholarly uses of research, such as in online government documents, press coverage or public discussions. Nevertheless, there are practical problems with creating metrics for journals based on web data: principally that most such metrics should be easy for journal editors or publishers to manipulate. Nevertheless, two alternatives seem to have both promise and value: citations derived from digitised books and download counts for journals within specific delivery platforms.

@article{thelwall2012journal, abstract = {In theory, the web has the potential to provide information about the wider impact of academic research, beyond traditional scholarly impact. This is because the web can reflect non-scholarly uses of research, such as in online government documents, press coverage or public discussions. Nevertheless, there are practical problems with creating metrics for journals based on web data: principally that most such metrics should be easy for journal editors or publishers to manipulate. Nevertheless, two alternatives seem to have both promise and value: citations derived from digitised books and download counts for journals within specific delivery platforms.}, added-at = {2013-02-13T12:21:28.000+0100}, author = {Thelwall, Mike}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2284883bbaa636a0bab13fc54b903f363/jaeschke}, doi = {10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x}, interhash = {834707cf0663109f7811a14ae746be72}, intrahash = {284883bbaa636a0bab13fc54b903f363}, issn = {0138-9130}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keywords = {evaluation impact journal scientometrics web}, language = {English}, number = 2, pages = {429--441}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, timestamp = {2014-07-28T15:57:31.000+0200}, title = {Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x}, volume = 92, year = 2012 }