A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Vincent Larivière, Véronique Kiermer, Catriona J. MacCallum, Marcia McNutt, Mark Patterson, Bernd Pulverer, Sowmya Swaminathan, Stuart Taylor, Stephen Curry
The paper proposes a method to publish citation distributions underlying Journal Impact Factors, showing their skew and overlap, and advocates for transparency to reduce reliance on JIFs for evaluating individual papers.
bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2016 · PreprintScientific Communication & Education