Journal topic citation potential and between-field comparisons: The topic normalized impact factor

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Highlights：

• We provide a source normalization approach based on a new definition of journal topic.

• We compare it with some traditional journal impact indicators.

• Our topic normalized impact factor reduces the between-group variance in relation to the within-group variance.

摘要

•We provide a source normalization approach based on a new definition of journal topic.•We compare it with some traditional journal impact indicators.•Our topic normalized impact factor reduces the between-group variance in relation to the within-group variance.

论文关键词：Journal assessment,Journal metric,Bibliometric indicator,Citation analysis,Journal impact factor,Source normalization,Citation potential

论文评审过程：Received 16 September 2013, Revised 23 January 2014, Accepted 27 January 2014, Available online 28 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.013