The impact factor was first introduced by Eugene Garfield, the founder of Institute for Scientific Information(ISI) that reflects the quality of the academic publications. The impact factor (IF) or also known as journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index that commonly used as a representation for the significance of a journal within its respective field. Via impact factor, the journals with higher impact factors are often believed to be more important than those with lower ones. To ensure that the impact factors is relevant and represent the field of journal, hence the IF is calculated starting from 1975 for journals listed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The impact factor (IF) is highly relies on the yearly average number of citations that recent articles published in a given journal received.
The quality of all the journal were then categorize by both JCR (Web of Science) and SJR (Scopus) in four quartiles to rank the journals in each subject category. These ranking structure of quartiles will rank the journals from highest to lowest based on their impact factor or impact index. There are four quartiles: Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.A journal impact factor is linked and obtained by considering article citations on that journal. Hence, papers published on high impact factor journals are likely to get many citations. In general, a high IF correlates with a Q1 ranking – but this is not always the case. Many higher education institutions are favoring the Q-ranking of a journal over the IF – as it is easier to understand and can be presented visually.
Both impact factor and quartile were presented using the following figures;
I believe, the impact factor and quartile is equally important and the researcher should achieve both. So, what should I plan to reach the goals is as the following categories;
- Manuscript writing
During the writing, I need to make sure, I cited my related and impactful past work that is relevant to the new manuscript. The title that i use also should be impactful and meticulous. The abstract should be written comprehensively, cover the content and give a gist that will attract the reader to dwell more and look forward to read my whole journal. I should also carefully choose my keywords and phrase that is impactful and commonly used as it will be at the top of search engine. The keyword should be repeated in the title, abstract and the phrases
- Researcher information
I need to use consistent name in all my published journal, paper. This will help people to find me easily and know what expertise I am. I should also provide researcher ID in my email signature with link ID that can access directly to my publication list. The information such as name, short biography, expertise, and affiliation is correct.
- Outreach and accessibility
This is the highlight plan. It is important for me to make sure my manuscript can be easily access in any place. If my paper is not in the open access journal, I should post the pre or post publication prints to a repository. However, I need to be make sure that the policy of my published paper is not contradicted with the action of uploading the raw pre and post paper. By outreaching and accessibility, I could also widen up the possibility of people cited my paper. This can also be achieved through data sharing in websites and social media, such as Slide Share, research gate or contributing to Wikipedia and providing links to your published manuscripts. Conference publication may not as impactful as review journal. However, the network build during conference will give visibility to my field of interest. This is essential for me to make collaboration and so on. I should have not limit my fields and talk to researchers from different background, promote my research and email copies of your paper to researchers who may be interested. Initiate the platform to actively promote to other researcher through email, blog or social media.
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