Of late many ways of measuring Journals Impact Factors have surfaced, some may be worthy, others are completely bogus. However, to date, the acceptable standard remains with the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor. Please see the attached pdf document taken from: http://wokinfo.com/essays/impact-factor/. A young researcher, and even experienced ones may at times be thrown off by some new journals (usually open access with articles processing chargres or fees) claime high alternative impact factors, and may get taken in researchers into murky waters ...!
This is an attempt to distinguish facts from fiction in this regard, and while possibly accepting honest to God scientifically proven journal and research equally good metrics as alternatives to ISI Impact factor, we want to keep researchers from falling pray to irrelevant or bogus would be publishers tricksters.
Please feel free to share your opinions, your experiences or any other facts towards fostering awareness and better practice in this subject. For instance have you heard of other impact factors that are completely bogus, and is there any foundation to them. How could you verify, in fact?
The other day I was mentionig alternative Impact Factors to of my favorite journal Chief editors, and he sent me this very alerting and useful link::
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/05/20/impact-factor-confusion-spam-emails-mislead-researchers/
Please do naarate your experience in this regard here, and let us know your thoughts on the subject.
Kindest regards,
FBMB.
Personally, they have no influence on me. At our university we have a journal list which targets which journals we are to publish in. Impacts play a minor role in selecting those journals. Impact factors are seriously flawed measures that should not be taken seriously anyway.
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Scopus releases 2013 Journal Metrics
Dear Fethi Bin Muhammad Belgacem,
Elsevier is pleased to announce the release of the 2013 Journal Metrics based on Scopus data.
The metrics provide alternative, transparent and accurate views of the citation impact a journal makes, and are all available for free download at www.journalmetrics.com. The impact metrics are based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. Scopus is the largest citation database of peer-reviewed literature and features tools to track, analyze and visualize research output.
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa. As a field-normalized metric SNIP offers researchers, authors and librarians the ability to benchmark and compare journals from different subject areas. A component of the SNIP calculation is the raw Impact per Publication (IPP) which measures the ratio of citations per article published in the journal.
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SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. It is a size-independent indicator and it ranks journals by their ‘average prestige per article’ and can be used for journal comparisons in the scientific evaluation process.
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The SNIP is developed by Leiden University's Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS). The SJR is developed by the SCImago research group in Spain.
More information, including a downloadable file with all journal metrics, can be found on www.journalmetrics.com
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FYIC : Just in Case . The latest journals Impact Factors can be found on the BIOXBIO Site: http://www.bioxbio.com/if/
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