Dear Oadi,

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, patent document, thesis, project reports, news papers, conference/ seminar proceedings, documents published in internet, notes and any other approved documents. It is measure the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals of higher journal impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journal Impact factors are calculated in yearly/half- yearly/ Quarterly/Monthly for those journals that are indexed in Journal Reference Reports (JRR).

Dear Oadi,

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, patent document, thesis, project reports, news papers, conference/ seminar proceedings, documents published in internet, notes and any other approved documents. It is measure the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals of higher journal impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journal Impact factors are calculated in yearly/half- yearly/ Quarterly/Monthly for those journals that are indexed in Journal Reference Reports (JRR).

Impact factor (IF) represents the acceptability of the journal (or acceptability of the articles in that journal). Higher IF means better acceptability. For instance, IF of a particular journal in 2015 would be = A/B

A = the total number of citations of that particular journal in last year (2014)

B = the total number of published articles in last year (2014)

If a journal published 200 article in 2014 and the journal was cited 400 times in 2014, the IF would be 400/200 = 2.0

Good Luck!