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IMPACT FACTOR - What is it?; Why use it?

The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times it's articles are cited.

Tools to Measure Journal Impact (Impact Factor)

• Journal Citation Reports (more)

• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) (more)

• SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)

Download Impact Factor Journal List 2021

About the H-index:

The h-index is an index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output (J.E. Hirsch) .

The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist. The index is based on the set of the researcher's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other people's publications (Wikipedia) A scientist has index h if h of [his/her] Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have at most h citations each.

Find your h-index at:

• Web of Science

• Scopus

• Google Scholar

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