We know journal publishes different items in its each issue like editorial, reviews, news items, correction, letters and of course research articles, all of which are not citable items. So when conducting a bibliometric evaluation of a journal, will all the items published in the journal be considered or only the citable items( like research articles, corrections, reviews) are considered in the study? In calculating impact factor of the journal also are all the published items considered or only the citable items considered?
Dear Naser Alraja, may main querry is about that PHRASE "CITABLE ITEMS PUBLISHED". By that phrase what published items of a journal is considered
Dear Deepjyoti,
The cited work is a paper or book that has been mentioned in the references of other works, and the citing work is the one that contains the references.
Dear Faizul Nisha,
thanks for your answer, but my concern was which items to consider for bibliometric evaluation of a journal as all the items published in a journal not always citable? Like some journal publishes book review, corrections, editorial items also, but these items we can't say as scholarly and so their probability of getting citations is also less.
A research evaluation study may take into consideration any research work, let it be journal article or a review paper. However, I guess your question is about what does the term "citable document" imply. Citable documents are those documents that are taken into consideration for calculating the impact factor. Remember, there are journals that publish only review articles and yet have a JIF from Thomson Reuters. Similarly, the SCImago journal ranking uses the term "citable docs".
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