JCR Alternatives

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Alvaro, 

You may wish to take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr05/centrality/
for the centrality measure (both citing and cited) of all ISI journals
(based on the JCR 2005). 

With best wishes, 


Loet

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 
loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics 
> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Álvaro Roldán López
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:38 PM
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Alternatives
> 
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> 
> I wrote a post (in spanish) about two upstart competitors for JCR:
> 
> Eigenfactor (http://eigenfactor.org/) and Journal Ranking
> (http://www.journal-ranking.com/ranking/web/index.html).
> 
> And I ask myself:
> 
> Do these tools represent alternatives to JCR?
> 
> Will these tools become another Prestige Factor Affair?
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> I apologize for my terrible English.
> 
> 
> Álvaro Roldán López
> http://www.bibliometria.com
>