Scientific Journal Impact Indexes and Indicators for Measuring Researchers' Performance

Abstract

"This paper describes the most relevant indicators for measuring the output, productivityand impact of researchers. The advantages and disadvantages of the most importantindicators are analysed: impact of journals factor, impact of papers factor, weighted impactfactor, accumulated impact factor, author impact factor, number of papers with impact factor,immediacy index, h index, internationality index, accumulated citation index, citations perpaper index, citations per year index, etc. The indicators are classified in accordance withjournal, papers, productivity, output and impact, etc. Finally, the paper offers some thoughtsregarding the use of the different indexes."