ARTICLE CITATION CONTRIBUTION INDICATOR: APPLICATION IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Zhenling Liu
Abstract
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a widely used and accepted indicator for measuring journal influence in academia, but it has certain limitations. Article Citation Contribution Indicator (ACCI) is defined and introduced in bibliometrics analysis. The ACCI, a new basic indicator, was adopted to analyze the papers published between 2019 and 2020 in Energy & Environment, papers with ACCI>0 and with ACCI<0 were classified into two groups. This paper employed the keyword co-occurrence technology to discover the commonalities of citation positive and citation negative papers. Citation positive papers made relatively a larger contribution to the JIF and might contain important scientific information, subsequent papers may learn from the research directions of these papers, while the citation negative papers failed to improve the performance of the journal in terms of JIF. The research showed that ACCI is an academic tool that can be used to guide scientific directions; the work flow can be used for other journal analysis. The academic journal editorial board can use it to identify potential high influence authors