eLife is a journal which say in their policy that they will not encourage impact factor.They now have nearly 10 IF.So do we need IFs to assess the quality of the journal.
Kindly go through this article to get an idea about impact factor.
Impact factor of a scientific journal: Is it a measure of quality of research?
A. Shanta, A. S. Pradhan, and S. D. Sharma
Instead of relying on a single measure, a more objective approach would be to view ISI-SCI Impact Factor (Thompson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports), in addition to other measures - e.g. Scopus-based Impact Factor (SJR). These measures may somewhat differ. However, the increase in an impact factor of a journal could be due to a higher number of self-citations. I would suggest consulting the attached article. Although not specifically devoted to the impact factor it still addresses some of these issues. Hope this might be helpful.
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There is a recent Nature piece (the first link below) discussing the drawbacks of the IF, so perhaps something will change indeed. See also the RG discussions at the other links.
http://www.nature.com/news/beat-it-impact-factor-publishing-elite-turns-against-controversial-metric-1.20224
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_the_recent_decision_of_ASM_American_Society_for_Microbiology_to_remove_the_impact_factor_infromation_from_journal_websites?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_future_of_impact_factor_will_its_role_diminish
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_journal_metric_impact_factor_eigenfactor_Google_Scholar_metric_etc_best_reflects_the_prestige_of_a_given_journal_in_the_expert_community?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/2016_Google_Scholar_Metrics_for_journals_have_been_released_Do_you_find_them_more_useful_than_the_alternatives_impact_factor_eigenfactor_etc?
Assessing quality to the best - http://ijaridea.com/Knowledge-Empowerment
You can fiddle the impact factor by citing your own papers, which makes me wonder what the point of IF really is. It is certainly not the quantification of the quality of science on offer.
For that I am proposing a new method
Impact factor for each article
An article cannot be self cited for ever
Total number of citation for current year /numberof yrs the article have been published
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Impact_Score_for_each_articleis_this_a_better_idea
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Impact_Score_for_each_articleis_this_a_better_idea
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