What is the criteria for assigning the impact factor to journal? I have seen that some open access journals (not indexed in SCI) continuously flaunting their journal's impact factor without any authorization from Thomson Reuters.
They have their own impact factors and reached up to 3-4 points. When the articles in such journals are highly cited then why not they considered by Thomson Reuters for indexing in SCI?
If they are fake, then how could they get ISSN number?
If they are not fake, then is it good to publish the papers in it? What is the quality benchmark? Will such papers be considered quality papers or not? Will their impact factors be considered?
Please share your views.
Dear Kunal
SCI includes Open Acces and non-Open Access journals. Journals not included in SCI will have not official impact factors, that are only generated by SCI through the Journal Citation Report.
Then, they can be also indexed in Scopus, which also have citation indicators, such as the SJR, SNIP and H index.
And finally, if is not indexed neither at SCI nor Scopus, journals can retrieve citations information from Google Scholar Citations, through the free software Publish or Perish.
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Dear Kunal, you asked very interesting question, indeed! Plesae, consider that Open Acess mean that articles does not requite any specail transcription. In this case aujtors have to pay for publications. An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a periodical publication in any reay, not necessary in science. So, it is quite different with SCI indexing. The decision for publication in one or another journal is up to you! I would suggest to read other paper what have been published in the journal previously and evaluate these paper according to your own criterium/opinion:
Dear Kunal
SCI includes Open Acces and non-Open Access journals. Journals not included in SCI will have not official impact factors, that are only generated by SCI through the Journal Citation Report.
Then, they can be also indexed in Scopus, which also have citation indicators, such as the SJR, SNIP and H index.
And finally, if is not indexed neither at SCI nor Scopus, journals can retrieve citations information from Google Scholar Citations, through the free software Publish or Perish.
Finally, please if you consider this answer appropriate, please upvote it using the green up arrow click. Thanks.
Dear kunal, journals may have ISSN no but many of them are fake too, mostly the one which claim to publish ur research in a week or so. Such journals are called as "predatory publishers" and are involved in money making mostly. They do not follow the double blinded peer review process also and are involved in unethical practices also. Many of them have the names resembling some reputed high impact factor journals. Be aware of such journals.
Please go through the papers listed below, it would be of help to u
Beall J. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature. 2012 Sep
13;489(7415):179.
Butler D. Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing. Nature. 2013
Mar 28;495(7442):433-5.
Van Noorden R. Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Nature. 2013
Mar 28;495(7442):426-9.
Dear Mr. Kunal, there are hundreds of such journals who claim that they are having impact factor. But, mostly they are fake. For journal ranking, you may seek some other ways also apart from impact factor as most of Indian journals do not have impact factor. if they are agricultural science related journals, you may check the 'NAAS Rating" given by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi. You may also check with Google Scholar for rating. Regards
Dear Kunal,
They may indicate other impact factor rather than SCI may be Scopus. But majority are FAKE!!
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