Impact factor

annmarie

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Impact factor

« on: July 17, 2008, 01:22:19 PM »

can anybody tell me how the impact factor is calculated?
Also do the highest tier journals necessarily have the largest impact factors, or can a journal in a "tiny" field have a low impact factor but a great deal of prestige.


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Re: Impact factor

« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2008, 01:39:09 PM »

Check here

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,49405.0.html


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Re: Impact factor

« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2008, 03:58:13 PM »

Damn, I thought this thread was going to be about golf clubs.....


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Re: Impact factor

« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2008, 10:26:06 PM »

Quote from: paul_robeson on July 17, 2008, 03:58:13 PM

Damn, I thought this thread was going to be about golf clubs.....

Damn, I thought this thread would be about how to access the quality of a scientific work.....


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annmarie

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Re: Impact factor

« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2008, 08:43:52 AM »

Thank you DG. I missed this thread last time. I was able to access the impact factor for the journals I was interested in at my Univ's library after reading the links.

I though that this article that describes how being able to dowload journal articles affects citations to be interesting.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/07/3870n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en


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