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Perakakis, Pandelis; Taylor, Michael; Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Checa, Purificacion
{ "publisher": "Zenodo", "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.45541", "title": "A Neuro-Fuzzy System to Calculate a Journal Internationality Index", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2005, 9, 13 ] ] }, "abstract": "<p>Internationality as a concept is being applied ambiguously and erroneously, particularly in the world of academic journal publication where it is often used as a quality indicator. Although different qualitative criteria have been used by scientometrists in order to attempt a measure of internationality in various contexts, it is now clear that the literal definition of internationality is a minimal one while other proposed measures based on individual criteria fail to provide a complete and accurate assessment. As such, internationality remains to be defined2.</p>\n\n<p>Here, we present a holistic approach to the problem based on fuzzy logic. We surveyed, critically-assessed and pruned the set of internationality criteria in the context of academic publishing, selecting those that are semantically precise and amenable to <em>quantitative </em>measure. We have tested the ability of each criterion to measure internationality by applying them to four thematically-connected journals from the field of Health and Clinical Psychology, using descriptive</p>\n\n<p>statistics and the Gini Coefficient. The results of this case study revealed that, in the absence of a method of numerically weighting the criteria, any measurement of internationality remains ambiguous and incorrect.</p>\n\n<p>We propose that internationality is best represented by a neuro-fuzzy system of fuzzy sets of the weighted criteria linked by fuzzy rules in a multi-layer perceptron, whose output defuzzification gives a new measure – a <em>Journal Internationality Index </em>akin to the Impact Factor for citations. Viewing internationality in this way as an approximated fuzzy function means a quantitative measure can be found while keeping intact its semantic rule origins and meaning. </p>", "author": [ { "given": "Pandelis", "family": "Perakakis" }, { "given": "Michael", "family": "Taylor" }, { "given": "Gualberto", "family": "Buela-Casal" }, { "given": "Purificacion", "family": "Checa" } ], "type": "paper-conference", "id": "45541" }
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