Answered By: Dawn Wong
Last Updated: Mar 07, 2024     Views: 774

An impact factor is a measure of the frequency that the "average article" published in a scholarly journal has been cited in a two or five year period. It is often used to measure or describe the importance of a particular journal in an academic discipline. Authors can use impact factors to evaluate journals to decide which to publish in. Impact factors were initially developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

The primary tool for locating the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is the JCR: Journal Citation Reports from Web of Science database. Enter the journal name in the main search box to locate the JIF for that journal.

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