%0 Journal Article
%1 thelwall2012journal
%A Thelwall, Mike
%D 2012
%I Springer Netherlands
%J Scientometrics
%K evaluation impact info20 journal perspective webometric
%N 2
%P 429-441
%T Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x
%V 92
%X In theory, the web has the potential to provide information about the wider impact of academic research, beyond traditional scholarly impact. This is because the web can reflect non-scholarly uses of research, such as in online government documents, press coverage or public discussions. Nevertheless, there are practical problems with creating metrics for journals based on web data: principally that most such metrics should be easy for journal editors or publishers to manipulate. Nevertheless, two alternatives seem to have both promise and value: citations derived from digitised books and download counts for journals within specific delivery platforms.