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What is Discipline Impact Factor (DIF)

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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
DIF is similar to the impact factor, which measures the average number of times a paper in given journal is cited, except that the DID measures the number of times a paper in a journal is cited in core literature of the given discipline (Hirst, 1978).
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Citation Based Indicators in Evaluation of Quality and Performance of Research and Researchers
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran) and Fahime Abbasi (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch644
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