WHAT IS JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR?

What is a good impact factor for scientific journals?

A journal's importance is determined by its impact factor, which counts the number of times individual articles are mentioned within a given year. Therefore, a journal's ranking is determined by its impact factor, which is a measure of how many citations or articles it has generated. If you wish to compare journals in the same subject area, IF is a useful tool.

How to measure a journal impact factor?

Here, we have given “ 5 ” journal metrics to understand the impact factor of the journal. They are,

1. Citesource metrics

It helps to assess the effect of journal citations. Calculated using information from Scopus, the biggest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, these metrics are free, thorough, transparent, and up-to-date.

2. SJR

SJR or SCImago Journal Rank, is relied on the concept of a transfer of prestige between journals via citation links.

3. SNIP

SNIP or Source Normalized Impact per Paper, is a sophisticated metric that accounts for field-specific differences in citation practices.

4. JIF

JIF, or journal impact factor, is determined by Clarivate Analytics as the average of the total number of citations to a journal's publications over the previous two years divided by the total number of "citable" publications over the prior two years.

5. H- index

The H-index has been used to analyze higher-order collections of research papers, including journals, despite its origins as an author-level metric.

What is the impact factor 1?

According to an Impact Factor of 1.0, the average number of citations for publications published one or two years ago is one.

Lists of journals and their impact factor.

Hereby, we have given a list of journals and their impact factors. They are,

Impact factor of Scopus :

The impact factor of Scopus for the 2022–2023 journal is 0.166.

Impact factor of SCI :

The impact score (IS) 2021 of Science is 15.19

Impact factor of Springer :

It has an impact score (IS) of 0.49.

Impact factor of Elsevier :

It has an impact factor of 9.620.

Impact factor of UGC :

7.97 is UGC Impact Factor

What is an average impact factor?

A score of 3 is considered good, and an impact factor of 10 or above is often regarded as extraordinary. The average score is less than 1. As an illustration, in 2021, the highly esteemed publication Nature had an impact factor of 69.504.

What is the average “5” year impact factor?

The average number of times journal articles published over the previous five years have been mentioned during the JCR year is known as the 5-year journal impact factor. It is computed by dividing the total number of publications published in the five years prior by the number of citations in the JCR year.

How impact factor is calculated?

The number of citations to sources published in a journal during the preceding two years is divided by the number of citations in the current year to get the publication's impact factor. The relevance of total citation frequencies can be better understood using the impact factor.

• Total number of times its articles were cited during the two previous years
• --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = A journal’s impact factor on a particular year
• Total number of citable articles in the journal during those two years

How do you know if a journal is good?

A journal’s credibility is calculated by several factors. They are,

Where it is indexed?

• Is the journal included or indexed in the major bibliographic databases for the field?
• Is it possible to find the articles that the journal claims?

What is the history of its publishing?

• Since when is the journal accessible?
• Is the journal mission readily available for new journals? Who are the editorial board members?

Is it peer-reviewed?

• How much time does the peer review procedure require?
• Is this an appropriate amount of time for a quality evaluation?

What is it impact factor?

• The average number of citations received over a two-year period is measured by the Impact Factor.
• Has the journal's impact factor been calculated? If not, are there any other bibliometric measurements that can be used to determine whether or not this journal's articles are being read and cited by academics?

Is a higher impact factor better?

In most fields, an impact factor of 10 or higher is regarded as exceptional, a score of 3 as good, and a score of less than 1 as average. However, the 27 research disciplines listed in the Journal Citation Reports are the best way to interpret the impact factor in terms of the topic matter.

What is a low-impact factor journal?

A low-impact factor journal lacks the indicator of high quality that a high JIF offers. We have less information regarding a paper's quality if it is published in a low-impact journal rather than more information indicating that it has low quality.

Top 100 Journals with its impact factor

1. Nature – Impact Factor: 42.78	2. The New England Journal of Medicine – Impact Factor: 74.7
3. Science – Impact Factor: 41.84	4. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – Impact Factor: 45.17
5. The Lancet – Impact Factor: 59.1	6. Advanced Materials – Impact Factor: 30.85
7. Cell – Impact Factor: 38.64	8. Nature Communications – Impact Factor: 14.92
9. Chemical Reviews – Impact Factor: 60.62	10. International Conference on Learning Representations – Impact Factor: 20.03
11. JAMA – Impact Factor: 56.27	12. Neural Information Processing Systems – Impact Factor: 16.54
13. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – Impact Factor: 11.2	14. Journal of the American Chemical Society – Impact Factor: 15.42
15. Angewandte Chemie – Impact Factor: 15.34	16. Chemical Society Reviews – Impact Factor: 54.56
17. Nucleic Acids Research – Impact Factor: 16.97	18. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews – Impact Factor: 14.982
19. Journal of Clinical Oncology – Impact Factor: 44.54	20. Physical Review Letters – Impact Factor: 9.161
21. Advanced Energy Materials – Impact Factor: 29.37	22. Nature Medicine – Impact Factor: 53.44
23. International Conference on Machine Learning – Impact Factor: 4.091	24. Energy & Environmental Science – Impact Factor: 38.532
25. ACS Nano – Impact Factor: 15.88	26. Scientific Reports – Impact Factor: 4.379
27. European Conference on Computer Vision – Impact Factor: 25.91	28. The Lancet Oncology – Impact Factor: 41.316
29. Advanced Functional Materials – Impact Factor: 18.81	30. PLoS ONE – Impact Factor: 3.24
31. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision – Impact Factor: 20.97	32. Nature Genetics – Impact Factor: 38.33
33. Journal of Cleaner Production – Impact Factor: 9.297	34. Nature Materials – Impact Factor: 43.84
35. Science of The Total Environment – Impact Factor: 7.963	36. Circulation – Impact Factor: 23.6
37. BMJ – Impact Factor: 39.89	38. Journal of the American College of Cardiology – Impact Factor: 20.59
39. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental – Impact Factor: 19.503	40. Science Advances – Impact Factor: 14.14
41. Nano Letters – Impact Factor: 11.19	42. Nature Energy – Impact Factor: 46.5
43. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces – Impact Factor: 9.229	44. Journal of Materials Chemistry A – Impact Factor: 12.732
45. IEEE Access – Impact Factor: 3.367	46. Nature Biotechnology – Impact Factor: 54.91
47. Nano Energy – Impact Factor: 17.881	48. Nature Methods – Impact Factor: 28.55
49. Nature Nanotechnology – Impact Factor: 39.21	50. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – Impact Factor: 9.266
51. The Astrophysical Journal – Impact Factor: 7.413	52. The Lancet Infectious Diseases – Impact Factor: 20.071
53. Applied Energy – Impact Factor: 9.746	54. European Heart Journal – Impact Factor: 29.98
55. Blood – Impact Factor: 22.113	56. American Economic Review – Impact Factor: 9.086
57. Immunity – Impact Factor: 31.745	58. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) – Impact Factor: 19.64
59. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Impact Factor: 3.055	60. Gastroenterology – Impact Factor: 22.68
61. Neuron – Impact Factor: 17.173	62. Journal of High Energy Physics – Impact Factor: 5.675
63. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials – Impact Factor: 25.249	64. Nature Neuroscience – Impact Factor: 20.07
65. Computers in Human Behavior – Impact Factor: 6.829	66. Chemical engineering journal – Impact Factor: 13.273
67. ACS Catalysis – Impact Factor: 13.08	68. Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology – Impact Factor: 94.44
69. International Journal of Molecular Sciences – Impact Factor: 5.923	70. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – Impact Factor: 16.389
71. Environmental Science & Technology – Impact Factor: 7.864	72. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Impact Factor: 5.287
73. Cell Metabolism – Impact Factor: 27.287	74. Nature Physics – Impact Factor: 20.03
75. Physical Review D – Impact Factor: 5.296	76. Accounts of Chemical Research – Impact Factor: 22.384
77. Nature Photonics – Impact Factor: 38.77	78. Nature Climate Change – Impact Factor: 20.89
79. Chemistry of Materials – Impact Factor: 9.811	80. Molecular Cell – Impact Factor: 17.970
81. Clinical Infectious Diseases – Impact Factor: 8.313	82. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report – Impact Factor: 13.606
83. Nature Reviews Immunology – Impact Factor: 44.02	84. Gut–Impact Factor: 23.059
85. Annals of Oncology – Impact Factor: 32.967	86. Cell Reports – Impact Factor: 9.423
87. Journal of Business Research – Impact Factor: 7.550	88. Clinical Cancer Research – Impact Factor: 12.531
89. Frontiers in Microbiology – Impact Factor: 4.076	90. Journal of Hepatology – Impact Factor: 25.083
91. eLife – Impact Factor: 8.14	92. Bioinformatics – Impact Factor: 6.937
93. The Journal of Clinical Investigation – Impact Factor: 14.81	94. Science Translational Medicine – Impact Factor: 17.96
95. Water Research – Impact Factor: 11.236	96. Frontiers in Immunology – Impact Factor: 7.561
97. Small – Impact Factor: 13.28	98. Nature Immunology – Impact Factor: 20.48
99. JAMA Oncology – Impact Factor: 31.78	100. The Lancet Neurology – Impact Factor: 44.182