Comparing the influence of ecology journals using citation-based indices: making sense of a multitude of metrics

The links among scholarly citations creates a tremendous network that reveals patterns of influence and flows of ideas. The systematic evaluation of these networks can be used to create aggregate measures of journal influence. To understand the citation patterns and compare influence among ecology...

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Main Author: Daniel J Hocking
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Queen's University 2013-11-01
Series:Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/4949