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Author-Name: Chia-Lin Chang
Author-Email: changchialin@nchu.edu.tw
Author-Person: pch286 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Applied Economics, Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Author-Name: Michael McAleer
Author-Person: pmc90 
Author-Workplace-Name: Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute,
	The Netherlands, Department of Quantitative Economics, Complutense University of Madrid, and Institute of
	Economic Research, Kyoto University. 
Title: Quality Weighted Citations Versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences 
Abstract: The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted
	citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of
	Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based
	on quality weighted citations. The new index is used to analyse the leading 500 journals in
	both the Sciences and Social Sciences using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures
	(RAMs) that are based on alternative transformations of citations. It is shown that ICQ is a
	useful additional measure to 2YIF and other well known RAMs for the purpose of evaluating
	the impact and quality, as well as ranking, of journals as it contains information that has very
	low correlations with the information contained in the well known RAMs for both the
	Sciences and Social Sciences.

Classification-JEL: C18, C81, Y10.

Keywords: Research assessment measures; Impact factors; Eigenfactor; Article Influence; 
	Quality weighted citations; Total citations; Index of citations quality; Journal rankings.

Note: The authors are grateful to Essie Maasoumi for helpful discussions. For financial support,
	the first author wishes to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the second author
	acknowledges the Australian Research Council and the National Science Council, Taiwan.

Length: 54 pages
Creation-Date: 2014-02  
Number: 2014-06 
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