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Impact factor

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact-factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. Impact factor is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate's Web of Science. The impact factor of a journal reflects the yearly mean…

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Impact factor

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has impact · 54
Impact factor → According, Another, As, Because, By, Citefactor, Commons Science, Conduct, Consulting Journal Citation Reports, EASE, Electronic Physician, England, Eugene Garfield, European Association, Fake, False, For, Freedom, Furthermore, Given
related to Related indices · 22
Impact factor → Aggregate, AHCI, BCI, Cited, CPCI, ESCI, For, Immediacy, JCI, JIF, Journal, Journal Citation Reports, June, Paper, SCIE, Science Core Collection, Scopus, Some, Source Normalized Impact, SSCI
related to history · 18
Impact factor → Baring Private Equity Asia, Clarivate, Eugene Garfield, Healthcare, Impact, In, Institute, ISI, JCR, Journal Citation Reports, Onex Corporation, Philadelphia, Scientific Information, The, They, Thomson ISI, Thomson Scientific, Thomson-Reuters
related to Distribution skewness · 14
Impact factor → Acta Crystallographica Section, As, Because, Bruker AXS, For, Furthermore, Nature, Nature's, Science, SHELX, SHELXTL, The, This, Thus
related to Reproducibility · 13
Impact factor → Google Scholar, However, It, JCR, JIF, Just, ResearchGate, Science, Scopus, This, Thomson Scientific's, Web, While
related to Use · 10
Impact factor → As, Cell Biology, Despite, Eugene Garfield, Hoeffel, In, JIF, The Journal, This, While
related to Criticism · 9
Impact factor → Criticism, Further, Numerous, Other, Some, There, This, While, Younger
related to Negotiated values · 7
Impact factor → Clarivate, FASEB Journal, One, Publishers, Results, Such, The
is a · 3
Impact factor → metric for journals and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions, metric for journals and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions.Questionable editorial policies that affect the impact factorBecause impact factor is…, scientometric index calculated by Clarivate's Web of Science
related to Calculation · 3
Impact factor → In, Journal, Pub

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impact factor journal research journals citations factors number jif science articles citation article published also use quality scientific metrics papers

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Impact factoris ascientometric index calculated by Clarivate's Web of Science0.90text
Impact factoris ametric for journals and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions.Questionable editorial policies that affect the impact factorBecause impact factor is…0.90text
Impact factoris ametric for journals and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions0.90text
the JIF should not be considered as a measure of qualityinstance ofnational and international research funding institutions were already starting to point out that numerical indicators0.80text
rigorous methodsinstance ofwhere scientific success is based on publishing in prestigious journals ahead of actual research qualities0.80text
replicabilityinstance ofwhere scientific success is based on publishing in prestigious journals ahead of actual research qualities0.80text
social impactinstance ofwhere scientific success is based on publishing in prestigious journals ahead of actual research qualities0.80text
the Leiden Manifestoinstance ofincluding key documents0.80text
the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessmentinstance ofincluding key documents0.80text
the h-indexinstance ofincreasing importance has been given to numerical indicators0.80text
the impact factorinstance ofincreasing importance has been given to numerical indicators0.80text
Google Scholarinstance ofcalculated as the average number of citations per article using citation indices other than JCR0.80text

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