Relative measure index: a metric to measure the quality of journals

• Main Authors: Raj, Ram Gopal, Zainab, Awang Ngah
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Verlag 2012
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software; Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/5287/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0675-z
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Journal impact factors (JIF) have been an accepted indicator of ranking journals. However, there has been increasing arguments against the fairness of using the JIF as the sole ranking criteria. This resulted in the creation of many other quality metric indices such as the h-index, g-index, immediac...