How Frequent is the Use of Misleading Metrics? A Case Study of Business Journals.

There are many misleading scientific metrics that are not known to the scientific community, particularly novice researchers. There is limited research in the area of misleading metrics, particularly related to business journals. Therefore, this research aims to examine the use of misleading metrics...

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Publicado en:Serials Librarian Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 197 - 205
Autores principales: Dadkhah, Mehdi, Rahimnia, Fariborz, Memon, Aamir Raoof
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2022
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          Dadkhah, Mehdi
          Rahimnia, Fariborz
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        affil: Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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          World Wide Web Evaluation
          Misinformation Evaluation
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      ab: There are many misleading scientific metrics that are not known to the scientific community, particularly novice researchers. There is limited research in the area of misleading metrics, particularly related to business journals. Therefore, this research aims to examine the use of misleading metrics by business journals, the most popular misleading metrics, and countries contributing to the website traffic for such metrics. We used Scimago ranking for business journals and examined the website of each for the use of misleading metrics. Further, we used a domain-based approach by gathering data from Search Engine Optimization websites (i.e., Alexa and Ubersuggest). Only a few Scopus-indexed, low-quality business journals used misleading metrics on their website. The most common misleading metrics were International Scientific Institute, Open Academic Journals Index, CiteFactor, IndexCopernicus, and International Scientific Indexing. In addition, Indian authors were the most frequent visitors of the websites of misleading metrics.
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