Journal
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 329-335Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.002
Keywords
Quality and quantity; Correlation; Impact factor; Article numbera
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This study reports a positive correlation between impact factor and article number in scholarly journals. High impact journals publish more articles. Quality and quantity are positively correlated. This is a common trend in different disciplines as revealed by empirical data. The correlation is obscure in a direct plot of article number versus impact factor. A plot of accumulated article number versus normalized rank of impact factor clearly demonstrates the correlation. The reasons behind this correlation are discussed. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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