The 'importance' of a scientific journal can be defined in several ways. One is its prestige, as measured by the impact factor, and another is the journal's visibility, as measured by its circulation. Since a journal's importance often has to be kept constant in citation analyses, this raises the issue of the association between these two variables.
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