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Understanding an Impact Factor


Q. What is considered a good impact factor?

Impact Factors are used to measure the importance of a journal by calculating the number of times selected articles are cited within the last few years.

Measuring Your Impact: Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other ...

The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.

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 ...

Understanding an Impact Factor - American Hippotherapy Association

The impact factor of a journal is a calculation of the number of articles cited in the previous two years divided by the number of citable articles the journal ...

Understanding journal metrics - Author Services - Taylor & Francis

The Impact Factor is an arithmetic mean and doesn't adjust for the distribution of citations. One highly-cited article can therefore have a major positive ...

Journal Impact Factor: Its Use, Significance and Limitations - PMC

Impact factor is commonly used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal within its field and to measure the frequency with which the “average article” ...

Journal Impact & Ranking - Research Metrics: Measuring the ...

The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two ...

What is Journal Impact Factor? | Elsevier Language Services

Impact Factors are used to measure the importance of a journal by calculating the number of times selected articles are cited within a ...

Understanding journal impact indicators

Although the term "journal impact factor" is often used generically to describe any impact indicator, only the metric provided by Clarivate ...

Impact Factors: Intro - Library Guides - University of Washington

An Impact Factor is a quantitative measure of the relative importance of a journal, individual article or scientist to science and social science literature ...

What Is a Good Impact Factor for an Academic Journal? - AKJournals

The impact factor judges a journal's quality according to the annual number of citations of needed articles that were published in it in the past two years. In ...

Scholarly Impact and Citation Analysis: Journal Impact Factor

The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two ...

Understanding Impact Factors - SLAS Connect

A journal with a SJR value > 1.0 has above average citation potential and journal with a SJR value < 1.0 has below average citation potential (3) ...

Q. How do I measure a Journal Impact Factor? - Library FAQs

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) - is a measure of a journal's impact, influence, or prestige. It is based on the concept of a transfer of prestige ...

Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other Metrics: Measuring Your ...

The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used ...

Is the h index better than the impact factor? | Editage Insights

On the other hand, the h index is designed to measure the scientific output of a researcher by considering a combination of the number of papers ...

Journal Impact Factor - Library Guides

The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular ...

Understanding Impact Factors: Evaluating Journal Influence

Impact factors are numerical metrics used to assess the influence and importance of academic journals within specific fields of study.

Understanding the impact factor - YouTube

The video explains the journal impact factor, a quantitative measure for the quality of scientific journals.

The Crucial Role of Impact Factor in Choosing the Right Journal

Impact factor is a bibliometric indicator used to evaluate the importance and influence of a scientific journal.