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The mean citations per paper is used increasingly as a simple metric for indicating the impact of a journal or comparing journal rankings. While convenient, we suggest that it has limitations given the highly skewed distributions of citations per paper in a wide range of journals.
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Calver, M.C., Bradley, J.S. Should we use the mean citations per paper to summarise a journal’s impact or to rank journals in the same field?. Scientometrics 81, 611–615 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-2229-y
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