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JournalCitationMetrics
JournalCitationMetricssuchasImpactFactor,EigenfactorScoreandArticleInfluenceScoreareavailablewhere
applicable.Eachyear,JournalCitationReports(JCR)fromThomsonReutersexaminestheinfluenceandimpactofscholarly
researchjournals.JCRrevealstherelationshipbetweencitingandcitedjournals,offeringasystematic,objectivemeansto
evaluatetheworld'sleadingjournals.
ThevaluesdisplayedforthejournalcitationmetricsfieldsinIEEEXplorearebasedontheannualThomsonReutersJournal
CitationReport.

ImpactFactor
ImpactFactoristheaveragenumberoftimesarticlesfromajournalpublishedinthepasttwoyearshavebeencitedintheJCR
year.TheImpactFactorisasocalledpopularitymeasurewhichreliesonthecrudenumberofcitations,eachofthemcounting
thesameindependentlyofthequalityofthesource.

Eigenfactor
EigenfactorScoretakesintoaccountthenumberoftimesarticlesfromajournalpublishedinthelastfiveyearshavebeen
citedintheJCRyearwhilealsoconsideringwhichjournalshavecontributedthesecitations.Sincecitationsareinthiscase

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weighteddependentlyonthesource,TheEigenfactorScorebelongstotheclassofsocalledprestigemeasures.TheEigenfactor
Scorerepresentstheprobabilityofreadingaspecificjournalintheentirecollectionandthereforehighscoringjournalshavea
greaterinfluenceinthescientificcommunity.

ArticleInfluenceScore
ArticleInfluenceScoreisalsoaprestigemeasureandhasallthefeaturesoftheEigenfactorScore,withanadditional
normalizationtothenumberofpublishedpapers.Henceitcanbeconsideredtheaverageinfluenceofajournal'sarticlesoverthe
firstfiveyearsafterpublication.
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OpticalSocietyofAmerica(OSA)somejointlysponsoredperiodicalsand/orconferencepublications
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VDEVERLAGconferencepublications

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CollectionsinIEEEXplore
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Journals,transactions,letters,andmagazinespublishedbytheIEEEandIET,withselectcontentdatingbackto1872.
JournalspublishedbyIET,IBM,BIAI(BeijingInstituteofAerospaceInformation)andTUP(TsinghuaUniversityPress),
datingbackto1930.
ConferenceproceedingspublishedbytheIEEE,IETandVDEVERLAGdatingbackto1988.
IEEEtechnicalstandardsandspecifications,includingactive,revised,archived,anddraftstandardsdatingfrom1948.
eBookspublishedbyWileyIEEEPress,TheMITPress,Morgan&Claypool,andotherIEEEentities.
CoursesrepresentingthebestofIEEEconferences,workshops,andseminarsinaninteractiveformat.

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