The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal.
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Friday, 2 May 2014
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The impact factor is used to compare different journals within a certain field. The ISI Web of Knowledge indexes more than 11,000 science and social science journals.
The impact factor, a numerical score that claims to rank the
importance of scientific journals, may be resulting in unnecessary
pressure on researchers to publish in journals with high values for that
score.
With some qualifications, the impact factor is a measure
of the average number of citations for papers published in a particular
journal. It is calculated by counting...
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