Journal Impact Factor: Its Use, Significance and Limitations

The IF of a journal is not associated to the factors like quality of peer review process and quality of content of the journal, but is a measure that reflects the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, thesis, project reports, newspapers, conference/seminar proceedings...

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Published inWorld journal of nuclear medicine Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 146
Main Authors Sharma, Mohit, Sarin, Anurag, Gupta, Priyanka, Sachdeva, Shobhit, Desai, Ankur
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published A-12, 2nd Floor, Sector 2, Noida-201301 UP, India Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd 01.05.2014
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Garfield, Eugene
Impact factors
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Summary:The IF of a journal is not associated to the factors like quality of peer review process and quality of content of the journal, but is a measure that reflects the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, thesis, project reports, newspapers, conference/seminar proceedings, documents published in internet, notes, and any other approved documents (by Indian Council of Medical Research or similar body). [2] Impact factor is commonly used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal within its field and to measure the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular time period.
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ISSN:1450-1147
1607-3312
DOI:10.4103/1450-1147.139151