1. Impact Factor
for Journals
Courtney Mlinar
Spring 2010
2. Definition of Impact Factor:
• average number of times articles from the journal
published in the past two years have been cited in
the Journal Citations Report year.
3. A Journal with great Impact…
…is cited frequently in the References and
citations in other journal articles
4. Find out if the journal you are using
is impacting other research…
12. Definitions:
• Rank- by sort option (Impact Factor)
• ISSN- journal identification number
• Total cites- how often this journal is cited
• Immediacy index- how quickly articles in a
journal are cited