Online opplæring i impact factor og Journal Citation Reports

Vil du lære mer om Impact factor og Journal Citation Reports, så kjører Thomson Reuters online kurs i uke 27, 28 eller 29:

http://app.info.science.thomsonreuters.biz/e/es.aspx?s=1556&e=27146&elq=f6bc2d3174db475c9947b52921505d51

Nytt i Journal Citations Report (JCR) fra ISI

• Five-year Impact Factor Trend Graph: View a longer time span to see a broader range of citation activity and get a more informative snapshot over time
• eigenFACTOR™: Discover the metric that uses citing journal data from JCR to reflect the prestige and citation influence of a journal by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships
• Impact Factor boxplots: Visualize Impact Factor by journal category
• Rank-in-Category Tables: Evaluate journals in the context of multiple categories
• Journal Self-Citations: See how self-citations affect Impact Factor

eigenFACTOR er et alternativt rangeringsssystem (gratis) via www. eigenfactor.org (se også deres side: Why Eigenfactor: http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm)
Artikkel om Impact Factor and Eigenfactor (fra Chemical and engineering news).