Can the journal impact factor be used as a criterion for the selection of junior researchers? A large-scale empirical study based on ResearcherID data
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Highlights：
• Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is often used to assess papers and provide resources and rewards for future work.
• This study tests the ability of the JIF (in its normalized variant) to identify those junior researchers who will be successful in the long run.
• The study is based on a large data set with many thousands of publication profiles of individual researchers.
• The results indicate that the JIF is able to discriminate between researchers with different publication success later on.
• The results also indicate that the JIF should not be used as the sole criterion for identifying later success.
摘要
•Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is often used to assess papers and provide resources and rewards for future work.•This study tests the ability of the JIF (in its normalized variant) to identify those junior researchers who will be successful in the long run.•The study is based on a large data set with many thousands of publication profiles of individual researchers.•The results indicate that the JIF is able to discriminate between researchers with different publication success later on.•The results also indicate that the JIF should not be used as the sole criterion for identifying later success.
论文关键词：Journal impact factor,ResearcherID,Web of science,Normalized citation scores,Journal metrics
论文评审过程：Received 6 February 2017, Revised 6 June 2017, Accepted 10 June 2017, Available online 30 June 2017, Version of Record 30 June 2017.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.06.001
