Introducing a bibliometric index based on factor analysis
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Valderrama Baca, María Pilar; Jiménez Contreras, Evaristo; Escabias Machuca, Manuel; Valderrama Bonnet, Mariano JoséEditorial
Springer Nature
Materia
Journal impact factor Factor analysis VARIMAX Weighed factor index Library science
Date
2021-11-13Referencia bibliográfica
Valderrama, P., Jiménez-Contreras, E., Escabias, M. et al. Introducing a bibliometric index based on factor analysis. Scientometrics 127, 509–522 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04195-4]
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Universidad de Granada/CBUA; Project PID2020-113961GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; Project A-FQM-66-UGR20 of Vicerectorate for Research and Transfer of the University of Granada (also supported by the FEDER program); FQM-307 of the Government of Andalusia (Spain)Abstract
This work applies a factor analysis with VARIMAX rotation to develop a bibliometric indicator,
named the Weighted Factor Index, in order to derive a new classification for journals
belonging to a certain category, alternative to the one provided by the Journal Impact
Factor. For this, 16 metrics from three different databases (Web of Science, Scopus and
SCImago Journal Rank) are considered. The Weighed Factor Index entails the advantage
of incorporating and summarizing information from all the indicators; so as to test its performance,
it was applied to rank journals belonging to the category Information Science &
Library Science.