Friday, 2 May 2014

IJOART Journal Impact Factor

The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. For More Details Visit - IJOART Jouranl Website - http://www.ijoart.org...

Does the 'Impact Factor' Impact Decisions on Where to Publish?

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...