Introducing sub-impact factor (SIF-) sequences and an aggregated SIF-indicator for journal ranking

The main methods for ranking academic journals are peer review based approaches and applications of various bibliometric indicators, or a mixture of the two. Such rankings are used to assess the overall quality of journals, although their real meaning remains unclear as long as the notion of quality' is not precisely defined. In our approach we examine journal evaluation from the perspective of knowledge accumulation taking the citation...