Measuring the citation impact of journals with generalized Lorenz curves

Because, in practical applications, it may be convenient to reduce such a functional comparison to a scalar comparison between indicators, we follow an axiomatic approach to identify classes of indicators that are isotonic with the criteria introduced. We demonstrate that the established JIF may be usefully improved if it is corrected simply by multiplying it by one minus the Gini coefficient. The resulting index, defined as stabilized-JIF, has many attractive features and it is isotonic with all the dominance relations introduced.