The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time.
Correspondingly, how do I find the impact factor of a journal in Google Scholar?
Find Impact Factor, Category, and Rank for Previous Years
- After searching for your journal title (see above), from the journal profile page, click on the down-arrow under JCR YEAR:
- From the menu, click on All Years:
- Scroll down to see the table of data per year. The Journal Impact Factor is in the second column:
In respect to this, how do you measure the impact of a paper?
An author’s impact on their field or discipline has traditionally been measured using the number of times they have published and the number of times their academic publications are cited by other researchers.
What is my impact factor?
An individual impact factor is a measure of the average frequency with which your recent articles have been cited in a particular year.
What’s a good impact factor?
In most fields, the impact factor of 10 or greater is considered an excellent score while 3 is flagged as good and the average score is less than 1. This is a rule of thumb. However, the wild card to pay attention to is that impact factor and comparing journals are most effective in the same discipline.