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Impact Factor of Journals
Impact Factor of Journals
Pinki Insan
Assistant Professor of
Commerce
MDU Rohtak (IGPGRC)
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR
WAS INVENTED BY
THOMSON REUTER (ISI). ISI
was founded by Eugene
Garfield in 1958
Eugene Garfield
Journal Impact Factor is from
Journal Citation Report (JCR),
a product of Thomson ISI
DATABASE=COLLECTION OF RECORDS
ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, ARTICLES
PUBLISHED IN A PARTICULAR FIELD.
The Impact Factor for a given
year is defined as the total
number of citations received in
that year to articles published in
the previous two years divided
by the total number of citable
items (source items) published
by the journal in those two
years.
Impact factor is the ratio of number
of citations received by source
items in a particular year to the
number of source items published
over a fixed period of time in a
particular periodic publication, say
a journal Source items: original
articles, editorials letters short
communications report of meetings
correction, notes review articles
etc.
Timing
The Impact Factors for a
given year are published
annually in
September/October of the
following year in the
Journal Citation Reports
(JCR).
An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that,
on average, the articles published
one or two year ago have been
cited one time.
C1+C2
S1+S2
C1 denotes the number of citations received by S1
source items in the year Y
C2 denotes the number of citations received by S2
source items in the year Y
S1 denotes the number of source items published in
the journal J in the year Y-1.
40+28/32+36=1
Features
It is not a constant like the specific
gravity of water
The number is expressed up to three
digits after decimal in JCR e. g. 2.319
It is year- specific.
It is database specific.
Value of impact factor generally lies
between 0 and 50.
It varies from subject to subject.
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Source Data
Review articles are often more highly cited
than original research articles: consider a
journal’s source data by document type.
Tallies the number of original research and review articles published in the current year (2005)
Also tallies the number of references published by the selected journal in the current year
Other Items = document types not included in the number of citable items published by this journal (e.g.
letters, news items, editorials, etc.)
Cited Journal List
References to all
older articles.
Publication year of
cited article.
A list of journals
which have cited
Atmosphere-
Ocean within 2004
Citing Journal List