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We urge that editors demand more replication of unexpected findings and that the importance that the academic community gives to quantity of citations be balanced with a greater awareness of potential publication bias.
Moreover, woven into these writings is an extraordinary breadth and quantity of citations and allusions; and by no means are these all clear and obvious.
The EF is calculated based on a complex algorithm that takes into account not only the quantity of citations but also their "quality" by assigning weights to the source of the citations.
The SJR is a prestige metric of journal impact based on the Scopus database that considers both the quantity of citations (average number of citations received in a specific year by documents published in the journal in the previous three years) and the quality of citations (based on the scientific influence of the journals that cite them) [ 20].
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On the one hand, journals' scientific influence or prestige as computed by the SJR indicator tended to be concentrated in fewer journals than the quantity of citation measured by JIF 3y).
Each bibliometric indicator provided insights into research quality, i.e., quantity of papers, citation rates, impact factor; norm-referencing [ 33].
The h index, a natural number, is approximately proportional to the square root of the total citation counts, and linearly proportional to the total number of publications, [3] combining the number of papers (quantity) and the number of citations (quality).
However, drawing conclusions about the relationship between quantity and quality of research output is problematic if number of citations is used as the measure of quality because this metric is not independent of our measure of quantity.
A strength of the h-index is that it evaluates two surrogate measures of research, quantity (evaluated by the number of publications) and quality (evaluated by the number of citations of publications), and presents them as a single number.
Recently, novel indicators have been proposed with the aim to overcome deficiencies of the "traditional" bibliometric indices (e.g. number of publications, total citation count, average number of citations per publication) and to combine more efficiently information on both the quantity and the quality of the research output [ 1- 4].
They receive a disproportionate number of citations.
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