The use of the Percentage Rank Position index for comparative evaluation of journals

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Highlights：

• Impact indicators may be preferably calculated from the elite set of journals.

• The Percentage Rank Position (PRP) index is used to compare journals across different fields.

• The PRP-index relates the citation rank of a paper to the total number of papers.

• A method is suggested to compare impact indices used for eliminating field differences.

摘要

•Impact indicators may be preferably calculated from the elite set of journals.•The Percentage Rank Position (PRP) index is used to compare journals across different fields.•The PRP-index relates the citation rank of a paper to the total number of papers.•A method is suggested to compare impact indices used for eliminating field differences.

论文关键词：Citation rank,Elite set,Field differences,Percentage Rank Position,Eminence of journals

论文评审过程：Received 4 November 2013, Revised 3 January 2014, Accepted 7 January 2014, Available online 6 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.001