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crl-26097	Galbraith, Quinn; Carlile Butterfield, Alexandra; Cardon, Chase	Judging Journals: How Impact Factor and Other Metrics Differ across Disciplines	2023	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8720	295	33	Since metrics will still be used, and the “simple-minded comparison” of two metrics “will give meaningless results unless the indices are properly corrected for the fact that different science fields have different citation habitudes,” our study examines the disciplinary differ- ences between journal metrics in the databases of Scopus, Eigenfactor, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.7 Previous research has suggested that these databases have been growing consistently and with enough stability to allow for a cross-disciplinary study of them such as this one.8 Impact Factor, for example, has asserted that it should not be used for Humanities journals, yet, in our experience, Humanities professors and students still attempt to use Impact Factor to as- sess their work.9 While previous scholars have offered their own systems for attempting to normalize disciplinary differences in bibliometrics, these systems are often complex and are, in the end, essentially unused.10 Therefore, we seek to offer academic libraries, rank and tenure committees, and other interested persons some simple trends for distinguishing the general differences between journal metrics in various disciplines.	cache/crl-26097.pdf	txt/crl-26097.txt