Anita Coleman gives a nice overview of possible multi-dimensional measure of the value of academic journals next to the traditional impact factor. To measure the value of a journals Coleman first selects three measures, namely journal attraction power, author associativity, and journal consumption power; she redefines two of them as journal measures of affinity (the proportion of foreign authors) and associativity (the amount of collaboration), and calculate these as objective indicators of journal value. To illustrate the multi-dimensional identity of the value of a journal I selected the following list of possible measures from Coleman’s article (in alfabetical order):
- Acceptance and Rejection rates
- Adjusted Impact Factor,
- Article Quality,
- Author Reputation Score,
- Average Ranking Position,
- Circulation size,
- Citation Rate,
- Citing Half-Life,
- Degree of specialization,
- Disciplinary Impact Factor,
- Editorial board,
- Editorial standards,
- Immediacy Index,
- Impact Factor,
- Importance Index
- Influence Weight,
- Journal Age,
- Journal origin and orientation,
- Mean Response Time,
- Popularity Factor
- Readership
- References per Paper,
- Reprint distribution,
- School Reputation Score,
- Self-citedness,
- Standing,
- Type of research covered,
- Uncitedness,
