Impact maturity times and citation time windows: The 2-year maximum journal impact factor

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Highlights：

• We provide a source normalization approach based on a variable target window.

• We compare it with a traditional normalization approach based on a fixed target window.

• Our maximum citation time window reduces the between-group variance in relation to the within-group variance.

摘要

•We provide a source normalization approach based on a variable target window.•We compare it with a traditional normalization approach based on a fixed target window.•Our maximum citation time window reduces the between-group variance in relation to the within-group variance.

论文关键词：Journal metrics,Bibliometric indicator,Citation analysis,Journal impact factor,Citation time window,Impact maturity time.

论文评审过程：Received 14 February 2013, Revised 20 March 2013, Accepted 21 March 2013, Available online 19 April 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.005