Causes for the Persistence of Impact Factor Mania

Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years,

T he Impact Factor (FI) published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Thomson Reuters is defined as the average number of citations received by a journal in a given year of

The IFPA index is based on the impact factor of the journal, the average impact factor of all journals having the same subject category (dis- cipline), the ranking of the

This information and the ‘Impact factor’ for each journal can be made available on Intranet along with information of the availability or non-availability of the journal in the

Relationship between impact factor and the level of non-citation within a journal The proportion of articles which have not been cited is compared with impact factor (log scale)

As little research has been done for the journal h-type indices and the journal impact factor in medical-science related fields, which are generally believed to be well covered by

It was shown that when much is known about a journal’s quality, impact and influence through its impact factor and mean citations, journal policy, and the number of high quality

Sharing research data also can boost the citations rate significantly (p = 0.006) regardless of date of publication and journal impact factor [90-95].. Piwowar,