Immediacy Index
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The Immediacy Index is a bibliometric indicator that measures how quickly articles in a scholarly journal are cited within the same year they are published.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Immediacy Index canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2958721 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Immediacy Index Context triple: [Journal Citation Reports, providesMetric, Immediacy Index]
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A.
Moment
"Moment" is a sultry, R&B-infused song by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét that showcases her smooth vocals and sensual, atmospheric production.
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B.
T.I.M.E.
T.I.M.E. is an international association of leading engineering and technology universities that collaborates on joint programs, double degrees, and academic exchanges.
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C.
A Kind of Stopwatch
"A Kind of Stopwatch" is a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone in which a man acquires a magical stopwatch that can freeze time, leading to unforeseen consequences.
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D.
Tempo
Tempo was the internal codename used by Apple for the Mac OS 8 operating system during its development.
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E.
Imagination
"Imagination" is a popular American standard song, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Immediacy Index Target entity description: The Immediacy Index is a bibliometric indicator that measures how quickly articles in a scholarly journal are cited within the same year they are published.
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A.
Moment
"Moment" is a sultry, R&B-infused song by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét that showcases her smooth vocals and sensual, atmospheric production.
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B.
T.I.M.E.
T.I.M.E. is an international association of leading engineering and technology universities that collaborates on joint programs, double degrees, and academic exchanges.
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C.
A Kind of Stopwatch
"A Kind of Stopwatch" is a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone in which a man acquires a magical stopwatch that can freeze time, leading to unforeseen consequences.
-
D.
Tempo
Tempo was the internal codename used by Apple for the Mac OS 8 operating system during its development.
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E.
Imagination
"Imagination" is a popular American standard song, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliometric indicator
ⓘ
citation metric ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
journal articles
ⓘ
scholarly journals ⓘ |
| calculatedBy | dividing citations in a given year by number of articles published that year ⓘ |
| category | journal-level metric ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Journal Impact Factor ⓘ |
| differsFrom | Journal Impact Factor time window ⓘ |
| expressedAs | average number of same-year citations per article ⓘ |
| focusesOn | short-term citation impact ⓘ |
| higherValuesIndicate |
faster citation of published articles
ⓘ
strong short-term impact ⓘ |
| indicatorOf |
how quickly a journal’s content is cited
ⓘ
journal topicality ⓘ journal visibility ⓘ |
| limitationsInclude |
dependence on a single year of data
ⓘ
not comparable across very different disciplines ⓘ strong influence of publication date within the year ⓘ |
| lowerValuesIndicate | slower citation accumulation ⓘ |
| measures |
citations received in the same year as publication
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how quickly articles in a journal are cited ⓘ |
| notDesignedFor |
evaluating individual researchers
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long-term impact assessment ⓘ |
| oftenHigherIn | rapidly evolving research fields ⓘ |
| oftenLowerIn | fields with long citation half-lives ⓘ |
| publishedIn | journal citation reports ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Journal Impact Factor
ⓘ
citation distribution ⓘ cited half-life ⓘ |
| requires |
citation counts for the same publication year
ⓘ
number of citable items published in that year ⓘ |
| sensitiveTo |
field-specific citation practices
ⓘ
journal size ⓘ publication timing within the year ⓘ |
| timeWindow | single calendar year ⓘ |
| usedBy |
authors
ⓘ
librarians ⓘ publishers ⓘ research managers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
assessing immediacy of research uptake
ⓘ
comparing journals within the same field ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bibliometrics
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research evaluation ⓘ scientometrics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Immediacy Index Description of subject: The Immediacy Index is a bibliometric indicator that measures how quickly articles in a scholarly journal are cited within the same year they are published.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.