JOURNAL RANKING BY DIFFERENT PARAMETERS .2. INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE - WHICH PARAMETERS ARE BEST SUITED FOR JOURNAL RANKING

For the first time the impact of different ranking parameters on one and the same experimentally achieved set of 610 journals is studied. Significance of the three journal ranking parameters Selective Journal Productivity, Selective Impact, and Collectivity is established. Significant parameters cause strong re-ranking in journal rank distributions and, in the transition between individual and collective parameters, also in the shape of the comulated curves. No parameter can replace an other one, each carries essential information on the communication process. The author's concept is open for more parameters and pronounces the role of man in decision making. The connection between simple behavioral principles and scientometrics is emphasized. The holography principle and the maximum speed principle are claimed to be most promising. © 1990 Akadémiai Kiadó.