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Description
Impact factor is a measure of a scientific journal's citations, frequently used as an indicator of a journal's importance or prestige.
Abbreviation: IF
Reference: MitoPedia: BEC
Clarivate Analytics
- Clarivate Analytics (former part of Thomson Reuters) maintains the Journal Citation Reports, which is used as the basis to define a journal impact factor.
- The impact factors in a given year are calculated as the ratio between the number of citations in that year for publications that were published in the two previous years.
- Β» Web of Science and Web of Science journal evaluation process and criteria
- Β» Journal Citation Reports
- Β» Clarivate Analytics
Directory of Open Access Journals
- DOAJ does not approve of the use of Impact Factors. However, DOAJ acknowledges that the only official Impact Factor is that created by Clarivate. Journals must not display Impact Factors/similar rankings from any other service when included in DOAJ.
- Β» https://doaj.org/apply/guide/
DORA
- DORAs recommendations on the use of impact factors:
- The need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations;
- The need to assess research on its own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which the research is published; and
- The need to capitalize on the opportunities provided by online publication (such as relaxing unnecessary limits on the number of words, figures, and references in articles, and exploring new indicators of significance and impact).
- Β» https://sfdora.org/read/
- DORAs recommendations on the use of impact factors:
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