Research on Evaluation of academic journals' Influence by Introducing Altmetrics Indicators:Taking International Journals of Library and Information Science as an Example

  • Zhao Rongying Wang Xu
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Received date: 2018-08-16

  Online published: 2018-12-27

Abstract

Online scientific communication and open access are becoming more frequent under the Web2.0 environment. Traditional citation indicators have been impossible to fully evaluate the influence of academic journals. Introducing Altmetrics indicators can provide reference for selection of evaluation indicators of influence and model optimization of academic periodicals, as well as provide new ideas for improving the current status of evaluation of academic journals' influence.This article takes International Journals of Library and Information Science as an example, then combines 8 traditional citation indicators and introduces 12 Altmetrics indicators to construct a comprehensive evaluation model of academic journals' influence based on traditional citation indicators and Altmetrics indicators. In addition, this paper systematically constructs periodicals' evaluation index system which is from two dimensions: the academic influence and social influence. Finally, by means of factor analysis, principal component analysis and correlation analysis, the primary influence and social influence of academic periodicals are evaluated, and the results of two-dimensional evaluation of academic journals' influence are obtained.Firstly, the evaluation model of academic journals' influence constructed by introducing Altmetrics indicator has certain practical value. Secondly, there is strong positive correlation between the 8 traditional citation indicators based on JCR. Thirdly, most of the 12 Altmetrics indicators are strongly positive correlated based on the Altmetrics Explorer. Finally, there is a strong positive correlation on the score of academic journals' influence evaluation between native citation indicators and social Altmetrics indicators. Meanwhile, the latter has a better complement to the former, and the Altmetrics indicators score also has certain foresight to the citation score.

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Zhao Rongying Wang Xu . Research on Evaluation of academic journals' Influence by Introducing Altmetrics Indicators:Taking International Journals of Library and Information Science as an Example[J]. Library & Information, 2018 , 38(05) : 1 -10 . DOI: 10.11968/tsyqb.1003-6938.2018077

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