| Summary: | [Excerpt] Scientific bibliometrics or ‘‘Scientometrics’’ are increas ingly used to evaluate the impact of scientific publication. Most of them rank the scientific work visibility for individ uals, journals or institutions based on different algorithms that generally compute the number of citations received by the publications. They have a significant effect on the public and peers perception of scientific merit for authors, journals and institutions. Not dismissing the limitations of those metrics, which have been object of previous publications1,2 they provide an objective methodology to evaluate the impact of the research published. Other applications of bibliometrics aim to identify the interaction between researchers in different fields highlighting the predominant authors or the countries where such research is conducted.3---7 One of the most tra ditionally used metrics is the Impact Factor (IF) published every year by Clarivate Analytics in the Web of Science.8 This index ranks the journals according to the number of citations received over the previous two years. So, the IF uses a sim ple algorithm resulting from a quotient between citations received (numerator) and articles published (denominator) over the 2 year period. [...]
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