Articles
Key Issue: Usage factors
Authors:
Richard Gedye ,
Research Director, Oxford University Press and
Chair, COUNTER
Fytton Rowland
Retired, formerly Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Loughborough University
Abstract
We already have COUNTER-compliant usage statistics and Thomson Reuters (née ISI) Journal Impact Factors. Do we need another statistic measuring the relative importance of journals?
The prime purpose of COUNTER statistics for journals is to provide libraries and library consortia with a consistent basis, agreed to by all compliant publishers, for assessing the level of local use of each journal.
Published on
05 Nov 2009.
Peer Reviewed
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