The ISI provides librarians with tools such as the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and the institution specific Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR) to aid in the management of serials collections. These tools enable librarians to respond quickly to changes in publishing practices and purchasing options. While available literature often criticizes ISI data, few studies provide concrete recommendations for improvement. This study explores two extensions to LJUR: (1) adding citation date and (2) creating institution specific impact factors. In addition, I explore the degree to which self-citations influence the ISI impact factor. Publication and citation calculations are made for three prominent southern universities’ research chemists using a corpus of full text articles drawn from 27 American Chemical Society (ACS) journals and stored in an Oracle database. The ACS research corpus impact factor simulation and ACS research corpus self-citation omission impact factor are also created and compared with current JCR data.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:17:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Julia Daher Fink.pdf: 947689 bytes, checksum: 7db281da6d814b43304132833fa89321 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / Although Skinner created a science which serves as an analytical and pragmatical tool towards relevant changes for the improvement of human living conditions and dedicated part of his work discussing problems of Western culture, the author and behavior analysis are accused to be in service of reactionary interests. In order to investigate Brazilian researchers' approach to social issues, this study examined sixty-four articles available in four specific behavior analysis journals: Revista Brasileira de Terapia Comportamental e Cognitiva (RBTCC), Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento (REBAC), Revista Psicolog (Psicolog) and Perspectivas em Análise do Comportamento (Perspectivas). To ensure that relevant articles to the topic would be selected, a list of key terms was extracted from government projects, OSCIPs' listing and social movements. Articles were categorized according to type, subject, population and setting, but also according to questions that verified important points about the behavior analysts social commitment. Results showed that few texts (15.6%) are related to social problems. Although application reports were prevalent, a wide range of text types was found. The most addressed subject was education. The majority of application reports and basic researches used students or individuals with developmental disabilities or disorders. The latter noted as a longstanding interest in behavior analysis. Considering social commitment to be a series of behaviors, we note that the behavior analyst has shown major social concerns, like conducting research intended to enhance technology in educational practice in low-income populations. In the same way we found reports where interventions were made to train the population in order to maintain positive results even in the absence of the researcher. On the other hand, we found reports in which researchers disregarded population demands and reports with weak experimental control / Muito embora Skinner tenha dedicado parte de sua obra a comentar e discutir problemas da cultura ocidental e criado uma ciência capaz de servir como ferramenta analítica e de atuação em direção a mudanças relevantes para a melhora de condição de vida dos homens, o autor e a análise do comportamento recebem até hoje críticas de que serviriam apenas a interesses reacionários. A fim de investigar a atuação dos pesquisadores brasileiros a propósito de problemas sociais, este trabalho examinou sessenta e quatro artigos disponíveis em quatro periódicos específicos da abordagem: Revista Brasileira de Terapia Comportamental e Cognitiva (RBTCC), Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento (REBAC), Revista Psicolog (Psicolog) e Perspectivas em Análise do Comportamento (Perspectivas). Para garantir que seriam selecionados artigos pertinentes ao tema foi realizada uma lista de termos-chave a partir de projetos de governo, listagem de OSCIPs e movimentos sociais. Os artigos encontrados foram examinados a partir da caracterização do tipo de texto, assunto, participantes e ambiente, e a partir de perguntas que verificassem pontos importantes sobre o compromisso social do analista do comportamento no texto. Os resultados mostraram que, se comparados com o total de publicações nos quatro periódicos, poucos textos (15,6%) são relativos a problemas sociais, com variedade de tipos de texto, embora sejam predominantes os relatos de aplicação. O assunto principal abordado tem sido educação e os participantes mais recorrentes nos textos de relatos de aplicação e de pesquisa básica são estudantes e participantes com algum tipo de deficiência ou transtorno do desenvolvimento, esse último notado como um interesse antigo da análise do comportamento. Tomando o compromisso social como uma série de comportamentos, nota-se que o analista do comportamento tem tido algumas preocupações importantes como a condução de pesquisas que, por exemplo, tenham como objetivo aprimorar uma tecnologia na prática educativa em populações de baixa renda e intervenções que apresentem a preocupação de dispor de condições de treino e ensino de parte da população durante a intervenção, facilitando que os resultados, quando positivos, possam continuar sendo replicados. Por outro lado, ainda existem: afastamento da demanda da população alvo como a origem da colocação de um problema de pesquisa e controle experimental muito inferior àqueles encontrados em pesquisas básicas

In this Research Commentary, we describe 3 journal metrics–the Web of Science's Impact Factor, Scopus's SCImago Journal Rank, and Google Scholar Metrics' h5-index—and compile the rankings (if they exist) for 69 mathematics education journals. We then discuss 2 paths that the mathematics education community should consider with regard to these citation-based metrics of journal quality: either working within the system to enhance our positioning or resisting or modifying the system itself.

Studies of the publishing practices in mathematics education have situated sets of journals in tiers of quality. These reports document the rankings and prestige of only a subset of the wealth of journals available for publishing in mathematics education. We posit that there is value, quality, and purpose to be found in journals that present studies that are of value on a regional level, and that the studies are extremely important to the field. This is particularly important for journals published in languages other than English, and the studies referenced above are almost entirely English-language journals. In this paper we seek to demonstrate that we as a field of researchers cannot discount the value and role of these regional and small-country journals. Using a case study of one small European country, we quantitatively present the areas of strength and weakness in the publishing practices in mathematics education journals that are unlikely to be seen beyond the region of their publication. We conclude with recommendations to publish in areas where research is lacking as well as recommendations to the community at large to recognize the value of such outlets.