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immediacy index: a standalone construct

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a journal indicator giving how often its articles are cited in the same year they are published, a measure of how fast it is taken up.

In bibliometrics, immediacy index refers to a journal indicator giving how often its articles are cited in the same year they are published, a measure of how fast it is taken up. This meaning comes from Garfield (1972) in Science.[1]

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References

  1. Garfield, E. (1972). Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation: Journals can be ranked by frequency and impact of citations for science policy studies.. Science, 178(4060), 471-479. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.178.4060.471

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