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Journal Quality Factors from ChatGPT: More meaningful than Impact Factors?

Mike Thelwall

Mike Thelwall

Information School, University of SheffieldUK
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Kayvan Kousha

Kayvan Kousha

Wolverhampton Business School, University of WolverhamptonUK
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May 07, 2025
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Article Category: Research Papers
Published Online: May 07, 2025
Page range: 106 - 123
Received: Oct 12, 2024
Accepted: Dec 10, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0016
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Figure 1.

Median correlations between Polish/Finnish/Norwegian journal ranks and either JQFs or journal citation rates (JCRs) for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals with a random sample of 100 articles each. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.
Median correlations between Polish/Finnish/Norwegian journal ranks and either JQFs or journal citation rates (JCRs) for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals with a random sample of 100 articles each. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.

Figure 2.

Correlations between Polish, Finnish and Norwegian journal ranks and JQFs for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals (as stated next to the bars) with a random sample of 100 articles each.
Correlations between Polish, Finnish and Norwegian journal ranks and JQFs for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals (as stated next to the bars) with a random sample of 100 articles each.

Figure 3.

Correlations between Polish, Finnish and Norwegian journal ranks and journal citation rates (JCRs) for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals (as stated next to the bars) with a random sample of 100 articles each.
Correlations between Polish, Finnish and Norwegian journal ranks and journal citation rates (JCRs) for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals (as stated next to the bars) with a random sample of 100 articles each.

Figure 4.

Correlations between JQFs and journal citation rates for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals with a random sample of 100 articles each. Numbers on bars record the number of journals for the field. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.
Correlations between JQFs and journal citation rates for all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences. Each field is represented by up to 100 monodisciplinary journals with a random sample of 100 articles each. Numbers on bars record the number of journals for the field. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.

Number of journals with ranks in each country for all non-Multidisciplinary Scopus fields_

Field Finland Norway Poland Any Journals
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 81 76 94 94 100
Arts and Humanities 4 4 5 5 5
Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology 93 90 97 97 100
Business, Management and Accounting 14 17 17 17 17
Chemical Engineering 12 14 16 16 19
Chemistry 59 56 61 61 64
Computer Science 76 75 83 84 86
Decision Sciences [not included] 1 1 1 1 1
Earth and Planetary Sciences 81 80 89 89 100
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 16 16 17 17 18
Energy 23 22 26 26 31
Engineering 67 65 90 91 100
Environmental Science 60 62 65 66 70
Immunology and Microbiology 13 11 13 13 15
Materials Science 38 37 46 47 50
Mathematics 31 30 34 34 34
Medicine 82 84 93 93 100
Neuroscience 35 34 35 35 35
Nursing 21 22 24 24 25
Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics 47 47 58 58 61
Physics and Astronomy 86 85 90 90 91
Psychology 32 32 32 32 32
Social Sciences 75 74 83 83 86
Veterinary 22 23 25 25 25
Dentistry 25 26 30 30 30
Health Professions 5 5 6 6 6
All 1,099 1,088 1,230 1,234 1,301

Median Spearman correlations between JQFs or JCRs and national citation ranks across all Scopus broad fields except Multidisciplinary and Decision Sciences_

Finland Norway Poland
JQF 0.682 0.635 0.708
JCR 0.632 0.537 0.733
Language:
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Computer Sciences, Information Technology, Project Management, Databases and Data Mining
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