Journal Immediacy IndexIt is the average number of times that an article published in a specific year within a specific journal is cited over the course of that same year. |
Journal Impact FactorIt is the number of current citations to articles published in a specific journal in a two year period divided by the total number of articles published in the same journal in the corresponding two year period. |
Libre OAIt removes price barriers and at least some permission barriers as well. It is free of charge and expressly permits uses beyond fair use. |
Licence to PublishAn exclusive right authors grant to publishers. |
LicenseA permission or authorization that ensures licensors get the credit for their work. |
Open Source SoftwareIt is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. |
Partial OAIt offers free availability of the journal's primary research articles, but access to other value-added content such as editorials and review articles requires a subscription. |
Scholarly JournalIt is a peer-reviewed periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. |
Science Citation IndexIt is the first commercially available citation index, launched in 1964 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform. |
SCImago Journal RankIt is a prestige metric based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. |
ScopusIt is the world's largest abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. |
Selected OAIt offers free availability of selected articles of a journal issue, while the rest of the issue requires a subscription to access. |
Self-CitationIt is a reference an author provide in a document to other documents written by himself/ herself. |
Serials CrisisA common phenomenon to describe the constant increase in subscription cost increases of many scholarly journals. |
Short-term OAIt provides free access to articles for a short period after publication, after which they are only available to paid subscribers. |
SNIPIt measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. |
Social Science Citation IndexIt is the second commercially available citation index, launched in 1972 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform. |