Table 3.

Rank-order correlations (Spearman’s ρ; upper triangle) and Pearson correlations r (lower triangle) for the 48 journals in the “multidisciplinary” set of the WoS

Indicator	IF-2009	I3	Number of publications	Total citations
IF-2009		0.798**	0.479**	0.840**
I3	0.590**		0.829**	0.986**
N of publications	0.492**	0.953**		0.772**
Total citations	0.841**	0.922**	0.839**

Source Leydesdorff and Bornmann (2011b, p. 2142)

** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed); * correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)