Comment on Bornmann (2017): confidence intervals for journal impact factors

David I. Stern

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2507-7

Comment on Bornmann (2017): confidence intervals for journal impact factors

David I. Stern^*

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In this Letter to the Editor I comment on a recent Letter from Lutz Bornmann. I argue that the Poisson distribution is not an appropriate simplifying assumption to make when computing confidence intervals for journal impact factors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1811-1813
Number of pages	3
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	113
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2507-7
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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