{"id":528,"date":"2013-12-26T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/zakiyamani\/?p=528"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T06:58:11","slug":"how-to-calculate-journal-impact-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/2013\/12\/26\/how-to-calculate-journal-impact-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to calculate Journal Impact Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is indeed something that many researchers have been asking and concern off.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Impact Factor (IF) an ideal and accurate measure of a journal&#8217;s credibility and quality? Aren&#8217;t there any loop holes\/criticism in this type of measurement?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"gt-src-c\" class=\"g-unit\">Calculation of the<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">impact factor<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">is an attempt to<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">create a<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">quantitative<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">evaluation tool<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">magazines.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Represents<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the frequency with which<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the &#8220;average<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">article&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">a journal<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">is<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">cited<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">in a given period<\/span>. <span class=\"hps\">For example,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">if there are 100<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">articles published in<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the magazine<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">from 2009 to 2010<\/span>, 100 <span class=\"hps\">citations<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of articles<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">in this journal<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">in 2011<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Factor&#8217;2011<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">effect is<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">1<\/span> <span class=\"hps atn\">(<\/span>number of articles <span class=\"hps\">\/<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">number of citations<\/span>). <span class=\"hps\">As expected<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the IF<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">magazine<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">changed every<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">vuosi. SI<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">calculated by<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Thomson Reuters<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">and you will find<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">detailed information about<\/span>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"gt-res-c\" class=\"g-unit\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-p\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-data\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-wrap\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-content\" class=\"almost_half_cell\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"> <span class=\"hps\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/free\/essays\/impact_factor\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Read related articles such as <a title=\"My journals\" href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/zakiyamani\/journals\/\">Journals<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is indeed something that many researchers have been asking and concern off. Is the Impact Factor (IF) an ideal and accurate measure of a journal&#8217;s credibility and quality? Aren&#8217;t there any loop holes\/criticism in this type of measurement? Calculation of the impact factor is an attempt to create a quantitative evaluation tool magazines. Represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,102,103],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-how-to-calculate-impact-factor","tag-impact-factor-calculation","tag-journal-impact-factor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}