Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor

Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor - The Scholarly Kitchen

Journal growth can have a negative effect on citation performance measures, especially on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This blog post explains why.

Reduced impact factor due to journal growth - The Publication Plan

Davis highlights that journal growth can reduce JIF because, for most journals, papers receive fewer citations in their second year than their third.

Does Journal Growth Negatively Influence Its Impact Factor? - Enago

Although the statistics may be against journals looking for expansion, a decrease in rankings will most likely be short-term. In contrast to the ...

Unraveling the Mystery of Impact-Factor Declines in Most of ...

The argument is that the pandemic led to an increase in the number of COVID-related papers published and cited in 2020 and 2021, resulting in a ...

Growth-adjusted impact factor | Physics of Fluids - AIP Publishing

The denominator of an impact factor is a number of publications over a two-year interval. For a growing journal, the number of publications ...

The 2022 Journal Impact Factor: Continuing Changes and the ...

Across the Wolters Kluwer (ACSM's publishing partner) portfolio, JIFs fell by an average of 7.3% (0.43 lower) than 2021 JIFs. If there was any ...

Does Journal Growth Negatively Influence Its Impact Factor? - Enago

Language: Researchers do not cite non-English journals as much as those published in English. Therefore, non-English journals tend to have lower scores. Number ...

Changing Journal Impact Factor Rules Creates Unfair Playing Field ...

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) calculation is based on the calendar year of publication. This is not an issue when a paper was e-published, say ...

Explosive increase and decrease in articles, citations, impact factor ...

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Lower Impact Factors, but not Lower Impact. 4–6 is the new 5–6

The Impact Factor will be decreased by less citations or by an increase in the number of articles. During the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 ...

Study results from journals with a higher impact factor are closer to ...

We used adjusted impact factors to account for inflation. In our sample of medical journals, the inflation-adjusted JIF of 1 roughly translates ...

The advance and decline of the impact factor | Editage Insights

The need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as journal impact factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations ...

Not So Fast: Inflation in Impact Factors Contributes to Apparent ...

This increase accounts for about 80% of the observed impact factor inflation rate of 0.23. In examining the 70 journals we found that nearly 50% ...

The effect of publication delay of articles on journal impact factor

Moreover, based on a case study of journals published by ELSEVIER and INFORMS, we find that PDAIF will bring a greater impact factor increase for journals with ...

Wavering impact-factor trajectories | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Editors are acknowledged — and sometimes praised and rewarded — when the impact factor (IF) of their journal increases.

Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness ...

For helpfulness, reviews for higher impact factor journals devoted relatively less attention to Suggestion and Solution than lower impact factor ...

The Institute of Navigation Announces an Increase in its Journal's ...

A journal with a higher impact factor generally is viewed as being more important than those with a lower impact factor due to its citation rate ...

What would be the reasons for a journal to have its impact factor ...

A lower impact factor simply means that on average, papers published in the journal were cited less than before.

Reasons for Journal Impact Factor Changes: Influence of ... - PLOS

Six journals did not show any valid IF increase, but feature alterations of invalid IF increases and IF decreases throughout the entire timespan of our analysis ...

Impact factor - Wikipedia

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean ...