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Impact Factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?
Jerome K. Vanclay
A review of Garfield's journal impact factor and its specific implementation as the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor reveals several weaknesses in this commonly-used indicator of jour…
Metrics to evaluate research performance in academic institutions: A critique of ERA 2010 as applied in forestry and the indirect H2 index as a possible alternative
Jerome K. Vanclay, Lutz Bornmann
Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) is an attempt by the Australian Research Council to rate Australian universities on a 5-point scale within 180 Fields of Research using m…
Publication patterns of award-winning forest scientists and implications for the ERA journal ranking
Jerome K Vanclay
Publication patterns of 79 forest scientists awarded major international forestry prizes during 1990-2010 were compared with the journal classification and ranking promoted as part…
An evaluation of the Australian Research Council's journal ranking
Jerome K. Vanclay
As part of its program of 'Excellence in Research for Australia' (ERA), the Australian Research Council ranked journals into four categories (A*, A, B, C) in preparation for their…
Ranking forestry journals using the h-index
Jerome K. Vanclay
An expert ranking of forestry journals was compared with journal impact factors and h-indices computed from the ISI Web of Science and internet-based data. Citations reported by Go…
On the robustness of the h-index
Jerome K Vanclay
The h-index (Hirsch, 2005) is robust, remaining relatively unaffected by errors in the long tails of the citations-rank distribution, such as typographic errors that short-change f…