The importance of impact factor (IF) came
from its use as an indicator for journal as
having high scientific value in comparison
to non-impact factor journal. Unfortunately
none of our Iraqi journals have IF, hope to get IF
for our journal in near future. Still there is a
conflict of doing high scientific value researches
and publishing in an average IF journal with all of
costs and payments. Here I would to focus on
the importance of IF, mainly with the help of
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and another
important website namely, science editing and
publishing (http://sci-edit.net) of how to get
information about the IF and how to know
journals with IF.
The IF of an academic journal is a measure that
reflects the average number of citations to
recent articles published in that journal. It is
frequently used to know the relative importance
of a journal within its field, as journals with
higher impact factors consider to be more
important than those with lower ones. The IF
was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of
the Institute for Scientific Information. IFs are
calculated yearly starting from the year 1975 for
those journals that are indexed in the Journal
Citation Reports (JCR).
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2014-03-01
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