Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: The «importance» of a scientific journal can be defined in several ways. One is its prestige, as measured by the impact factor, and another is the journal's visibility, as measured by its circulation. Since a journal's importance often has to be kept constant in citation analyses, this raises the issue of the association beten these two variables. The rank correlations beten impact factor and circulation re looked at in 21 disciplines from the sciences and the social sciences. In most instances, the correlations re beten 0.25 and 0.50. Among the exceptions, several re in disciplines in which researchers as ll as practitioners are involved, with some of the journals geared mostly to the interest of the latter. Interdisciplinarity, or rather the combination of several loosely related subfields into one discipline, explained one or two other exceptions. The low correlation for geography could not be explained. The implications of these findings for citation analysis are discussed
['Bluma C. Peritz']
I am writing a research paper on a idea On the association between journal circulation and impact factor
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