Estimating the accuracies of journal impact factor through bootstrap

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Highlights：

• Bootstrap is utilized to estimate the variability of journal impact factor.

• The way a database selects its journals makes a difference to the variability estimate.

• Sources of the variability in estimating the journal impact factor are discussed.

• The proposed methods can be generalized for other indices in scientometrics.

摘要

•Bootstrap is utilized to estimate the variability of journal impact factor.•The way a database selects its journals makes a difference to the variability estimate.•Sources of the variability in estimating the journal impact factor are discussed.•The proposed methods can be generalized for other indices in scientometrics.

论文关键词：Bootstrap,Journal impact factor,Error estimation,Education,Citation index

论文评审过程：Received 29 May 2013, Revised 18 November 2013, Accepted 20 November 2013, Available online 15 December 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.11.007