Measuring Societal Impact Is as Complex as ABC

Abstract

This paper describes an alternative way of assessing journals considering a broader perspective of its impact. The Area-based connectedness (ABC) to society of journals applied here contributes to the assessment of the dissemination task of journals but with more data it may also contribute to the assessment of other missions.

Keywords

• non-scientific impact of research
• abc to society
• societal impact
• bibliometric mapping
• publication-level classification