The Research Of The Relationship Between Impact Factor Of A Journal And Citation Frequency Of A Journal Article

The evaluation of scientific papers is one of the important components in the science and technology evaluation. At present, scientific papers are frequently evaluated on the basis of the journal Impact Factor (IF) in scientific research evaluation. However, scientific papers are sometimes overestimated or underestimated. In order to explore this phenomenon, two bibliometric indicators including the journal IF and the article citation frequency are analyzed, the relationship between these two indicators is also studied.In this paper, the origin of the journal IF is explored and the conception and the calculating method of the journal IF are studied. The elements affecting the journal IF such as citation motives, citation habits, database selection, editing, subject character and journal character are summarized and analyzed. The amending methods about journal IF are also compared.The citing and cited articles make up citation networks, and the prospect of the application of citation analysis in the field of science and technology evaluation is outlined in this paper.In this paper, the author studies the relationship between the journal IF and the article citation frequency, and taking an Academy. The result shows that the journal IF reflects the form value of an article and the article citation frequency reflects the academic value of an article.In the macro-aspect, the evaluation results of these two bibliometric indicators are consistent with each other. In the micro-aspect, the evaluation results of these two bibliometric indicators aren't completely consistent with each other.On the whole, the journal IF and the article citation frequency are complemented in science and technology evaluation.The author analyzes the evaluation guidance of the scientific papers at present, pointing out that the essential of this evaluation guidance is to emphasis the form value of an article, illustrating its imperfection. The author also proposes that the journal IF should be mainly applied to the articles' assessment within two years after articles' publication, and that the article citation frequency should be mainly applied to the articles' assessment over two years after articles' publication.Both the journal IF and the article citation frequency should be used comprehensively for the overall evaluation of scientific papers. We should not only attach importance to the journal's quality, but also pay more attention to the article citation frequency and the citation journals, and the methods of qualitative evaluation such as peer review are supplemented with the methods of quantitative evaluation.