Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Ricardo, 
 
I could not resist looking at your table 2 to compute the rank-order
correlations between the IF and the SJR. 
 
For the top 20 in the SCI, the correlations are as follows:
 

For the top 20 on the SJR, the correlations are as follows:
 


The correlations are not significant. 
Interesting, isn't it? 
 
Best wishes, Loet
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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), 
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Lic. Ricardo Arencibia
Jorge
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:53 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with
journal impact factor



Dear Colleagues,
 
I am sending the link of a paper developed by Matthew E. Falagas and his
team from the Alpha Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Athens, Greece), and
with the collaboration of Henry Dunant Hospital (Athens, Greece) and the
Network of Scientometrics Studies for Higher Education (Havana, Cuba). Its a
brief comparison of Journal Citation Report and SCImago Journal & Country
Rank, and between the most important indicators both presented: the Impact
Factor and the SCImago Journal Rank. These results are only the beginning of
several works that I am sure will be developed in the near future in order
to statistically compare both indicators.
 
Falagas ME, Kouranos VD, Arencibia R, Karageorgopoulos DE. Comparison of
SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor. FASEB Journal
2008, Apr 11.  <http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/fj.08-107938v1>
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/fj.08-107938v1 
 
Best regards,
 
BSc. Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge
Network of Scientometric Studies for Higher Education
National Scientific Research Center, Havana, Cuba.
ricardo.arencibia at cnic.edu.cu 
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