| Contents | 6 |
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| Chapter 1 Introduction | 10 |
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| 1.1 The Scholarly Journal | 13 |
| 1.1.1 Definitions | 13 |
| 1.1.2 Emergence and Development | 14 |
| 1.2 Application and Developments of Journal Evaluation | 16 |
| 1.3 Multidimensional Journal Evaluation | 21 |
| 1.3.1 Inability of a Single Metric | 21 |
| 1.3.2 Multidimensionality | 22 |
| 1.4 Case Study | 26 |
| References | 28 |
| Chapter 2 Journal Output | 32 |
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| 2.1 Output Indicators | 34 |
| 2.1.1 Number of Issues and Documents | 34 |
| 2.1.2 Document Length | 37 |
| 2.1.3 Document Titles | 41 |
| 2.1.4 Document Types | 41 |
| 2.1.5 References | 44 |
| 2.1.6 Publishing Language | 54 |
| 2.2 Producers of Output | 57 |
| 2.2.1 Authors | 58 |
| 2.2.2 Institutions | 70 |
| 2.2.3 Countries | 72 |
| Summary | 77 |
| References | 79 |
| Chapter 3 Journal Content | 86 |
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| 3.1 Digression: Indexing Methods | 87 |
| 3.1.1 Classification Systems and Thesauri | 89 |
| 3.1.2 Human vs. Automatic Indexing | 92 |
| 3.1.3 Author Keywords | 94 |
| 3.1.4 Citation Indexing | 95 |
| 3.1.5 Key Words Plus | 99 |
| 3.1.6 Social Tagging | 100 |
| 3.2 Level of Analysis | 103 |
| 3.2.1 Journal Level | 103 |
| 3.2.2 Article Level | 113 |
| 3.3 Content Trend Analysis | 147 |
| 3.4 Content Similarity Analysis | 152 |
| 3.4.1 Bibliographic Coupling and Co-Citations | 152 |
| 3.4.2 Co-word Analysis | 153 |
| 3.4.3 Co-occurrence of Users and Tags | 156 |
| Summary | 160 |
| References | 162 |
| Chapter 4 Journal Perception and Usage | 172 |
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| 4.1 Reader Surveys | 174 |
| 4.1.1 Journal Rankings | 175 |
| 4.1.2 Demographic Readership Analysis | 177 |
| 4.2 Download Data | 178 |
| 4.2.1 Local Usage Data | 180 |
| 4.2.2 Global Usage Data | 193 |
| 4.2.3 Download-based Usage Indicators | 201 |
| 4.3 Usage Data from Social Bookmarking | 207 |
| 4.3.1 Data Collection | 208 |
| 4.3.2 Bookmarking Indicators | 217 |
| 4.3.3 Comparison with Citation Indicators | 220 |
| Summary | 221 |
| References | 224 |
| Chapter 5 Journal Citations | 232 |
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| 5.1 Basic Indicators | 238 |
| 5.1.1 Mean Citation Rates | 241 |
| 5.1.2 Distribution-based Indicators | 253 |
| 5.1.3 H-index | 259 |
| 5.1.4 Time-based Indicators | 262 |
| 5.1.5 Citing Sources | 268 |
| 5.2 Weighted Indicators | 272 |
| 5.2.1 Influence Weight and Influence per Publication | 273 |
| 5.2.2 Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score | 274 |
| 5.2.3 SCImago Journal Rank | 278 |
| 5.3 Normalized Indicators | 283 |
| 5.3.1 Cited-side Normalization | 284 |
| 5.3.2 Citing-side Normalization | 288 |
| Summary | 298 |
| References | 300 |
| Chapter 6 Journal Management | 310 |
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| 6.1 General Journal Characteristics | 310 |
| 6.1.1 Age and Publication History | 311 |
| 6.1.2 Publisher Affiliation | 315 |
| 6.1.3 Scope | 316 |
| 6.2 Composition of the Editorial Board | 319 |
| 6.2.1 Size | 320 |
| 6.2.2 Internationally | 322 |
| 6.3 From Submission to Publication | 326 |
| 6.3.1 Review Process | 328 |
| 6.3.2 Publication Delay | 333 |
| 6.3.3 Rejection Rate | 338 |
| 6.3.4 Correction Rate | 345 |
| 6.4 The Publishing Market | 346 |
| 6.4.1 Production Costs | 348 |
| 6.4.2 Financial Models | 349 |
| 6.4.3 Journal Prices | 356 |
| Summary | 365 |
| References | 367 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions and Outlook | 376 |
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| 7.1 The Author’s Perspective | 378 |
| 7.2 The Reader’s Perspective | 380 |
| 7.3 The Librarian’s Perspective | 385 |
| 7.4 The Editor’s and Publisher’s Perspectives | 387 |
| 7.5 Outlook | 389 |
| References | 391 |
| List of Abbreviations | 392 |
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| List of Figures | 396 |
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| List of Tables | 400 |
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| Author Index | 402 |
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| Subject Index | 412 |
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