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Is the Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers' Citations Really Weakening?

Recently, certain researches declared a weakening relationship between impact factor (IF) and papers’ citations due to the increasingly convenient access to individual papers in the digital age. In this paper, we study the publication distribution of the most cited papers on the most cited journals (i.e., journals with highest IFs) based on three pieces of data, i.e., Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The results show that either from the overall or research field perspective, there is no obvious clue to indicate the weakening relationship between IF and papers’ citations. Conference Topic The relationship and development of five metrics science concepts, that is, Bibliometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics and Knowledgometrics.