SNIP
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SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) is a bibliometric indicator that measures a journal’s contextual citation impact by accounting for differences in citation practices across scientific fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SNIP canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T768193 — 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: SNIP Context triple: [Scopus, providesMetric, SNIP]
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A.
SN
SN is the commonly used abbreviated form of the Ukrainian political party and former television series "Servant of the People."
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B.
NIP
NIP is the commonly used acronym for the U.S. National Intelligence Program, which funds and coordinates the nation’s primary intelligence activities across multiple agencies.
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C.
NS
NS is the standard abbreviation for Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I freight railroad operating primarily in the eastern United States.
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D.
SPP
SPP is the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China, the highest national agency responsible for legal prosecution and supervision of law enforcement in the country.
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E.
NSB
NSB is the acronym for the National Science Board, the governing body that advises the U.S. government on national science and engineering policy and oversees the National Science Foundation.
- 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: SNIP Target entity description: SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) is a bibliometric indicator that measures a journal’s contextual citation impact by accounting for differences in citation practices across scientific fields.
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A.
SN
SN is the commonly used abbreviated form of the Ukrainian political party and former television series "Servant of the People."
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B.
NIP
NIP is the commonly used acronym for the U.S. National Intelligence Program, which funds and coordinates the nation’s primary intelligence activities across multiple agencies.
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C.
NS
NS is the standard abbreviation for Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I freight railroad operating primarily in the eastern United States.
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D.
SPP
SPP is the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China, the highest national agency responsible for legal prosecution and supervision of law enforcement in the country.
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E.
NSB
NSB is the acronym for the National Science Board, the governing body that advises the U.S. government on national science and engineering policy and oversees the National Science Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliometric indicator
ⓘ
journal impact metric ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SNIP ⓘ |
| accountsFor | differences in citation practices across scientific fields ⓘ |
| appliesTo | academic journals ⓘ |
| basedOn | citations received per paper ⓘ |
| calculatedFrom | Scopus citation data ⓘ |
| category |
research evaluation metric
ⓘ
scientometrics ⓘ |
| creatorAffiliationAtIntroduction | Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University ⓘ |
| dataSource |
peer-reviewed journal articles
ⓘ
review articles ⓘ |
| developedBy | Henk F. Moed ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
corrects for field-specific citation density
ⓘ
enables cross-field comparison of journal impact ⓘ |
| fieldNormalizationMethod | source-normalization ⓘ |
| fullName | Source Normalized Impact per Paper ⓘ |
| handles |
differences in citation frequency between fields
ⓘ
differences in database coverage between fields ⓘ |
| higherValueIndicates | higher contextual citation impact ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 2010 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Elsevier ⓘ |
| measures | contextual citation impact of journals ⓘ |
| normalizesBy | field-specific citation potential ⓘ |
| outputType | numerical score ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Journal of Informetrics ⓘ |
| publisherPlatform | Scopus ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
CiteScore
ⓘ
Impact Factor ⓘ SCImago Journal Rank ⓘ |
| revisedBy | CWTS Leiden ⓘ |
| revisedToImprove |
robustness against outliers
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statistical stability ⓘ |
| scope | multiple scientific disciplines ⓘ |
| timeWindow | three-year citation window ⓘ |
| usedBy |
policy makers
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publishers ⓘ research funders ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparing journals across disciplines
ⓘ
evaluating journal impact ⓘ |
| usedIn |
journal ranking analyses
ⓘ
library collection management ⓘ research evaluation ⓘ |
| version |
original SNIP
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revised SNIP ⓘ |
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: SNIP Description of subject: SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) is a bibliometric indicator that measures a journal’s contextual citation impact by accounting for differences in citation practices across scientific fields.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.