Another error in Impact Factors?

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Juan,

The IF = 0.006 points to a 1 citation. 1/173 = 0.00578. Single citations are
lumped together under "all others" by the ISI? However, I did not know that
this was done also for the individual years.

Best,   Loet


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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Miguel Campanario
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:52 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Another error in Impact Factors?



Hello:

Here is another problem with the calculation
of IF.
I just copied from the ISI Web of Science (JCR)

EE-EVALUATION ENGINEERING

Year=2004

Journal Impact Factor 97c37d.jpg

Cites in 2004 to articles published in: 2003 = 0    Number of articles
published in: 2003 = 88
                                                      2002 = 0
2002 = 85
                                                         Sum: 0
Sum: 173
Calculation: Cites to recent articles  0 = 0.006
  Number of recent articles  173

Maybe I am using the wrong numbers, but I just copied from the JCR.
What happens here?

Regards
Juan Miguel Campanario

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