The history and meaning of the journal impact factor.

By Eugene Garfield. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2006

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A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, background): “19 Thijs and Glänzel (2006) are in favor of presenting citation impact indicators both including and excluding author self-citations. As an alternative to excluding author self-citations, Glänzel et al. (2006a) suggest to offer supplementary indicators based on author self-citations.”
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact (2011, background): “Citations are the basis for metrics like the h-index [1] and its derivatives, which are used to evaluate the productivity and impact of individual researchers, or the impact factor, which is used to evaluate the scientific impact of journals [2].”
A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (2013, neutral): “The most powerful index which is used by WOS and Scopus databases for ranking journals is the journal‘s impact factor (IF) (Garfield 2006). IF is calculated according to the citations of all articles published in the journal during two years (Guz & Rushchitsky 2009). Levine Clark and Gil (2009) defi”
The seven sins of L2 research: A review of 30 journals’ statistical quality and their CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, JCR Impact Factors (2019, background): “JCR WOS Total number of a journal’s citations in a given year divided by the journal’s total number of citable publications during the past two years (Garfield, 2006).”
Free-Riding on Power Laws: questioning the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies (2011, positive): “…by its simplicity and apparent objectivity, we have hastily adopted the IF not only to assess journal quality, but also, by extension, the impact of the articles journals publish, as well as the achievements of these articles’ authors—uses for which the IF was never intended (Garfield, 1999, 2006).”
Differences in impact factor across fields and over time (2008, neutral): “(3) The weighted average impact factor for all journals listed in the JCR increased by an average rate of 2.”
The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented? (2018, background): “Although we recognise that a journal’s impact factor is a weak predictor of the quality or citation count of any given paper in that journal, impact factor is (for better or worse) a widely used metric of journal prestige and the productivity of individual researchers, and journals with the highest ”
Way forward for alternative energy research: A bibliometric analysis during 1994–2013 (2015, background): “Proposed by Garfield in Science in 1955, an impact factor is a standardized indicator created by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) to measure the way a journal receives citations to its articles over time [31,32].”
LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION IN ORGANIZATIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF FACTORS THAT MEDIATE OR MODERATE THE RELATIONSHIP (2012, background): “, Boor, 1982), it is generally recognized as a valid indicator of journal quality (Garfield, 2006).”