Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
We already have COUNTER-compliant usage statistics and Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factors. Do we need another statistic measuring the relative importance of journals?
A journal with a low impact factor may have high usage by undergraduate and postgraduate students who do not publish, by academics using the material for teaching purposes, or by practitioners using journal material to help them in their work
These types of usage are not reflected in any subsequent publications and contribute no citations. They are an indication of journal value, a value which might perhaps become more fully appreciated if we were to develop a usage metric which embraced a key attribute of the impact factor
Summary
We already have COUNTER-compliant usage statistics and Thomson Reuters (née ISI) Journal Impact Factors. Do we need another statistic measuring the relative importance of journals?
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