Do not see these impact factors as absolute numbers. Just compare journals, but only within a discipline. Cross discipline comparison is not valid. But what is more important: submit to journals that are on your topic and have good visibility, preferable open access journals. Impact factors are not made to judge individual papers or researchers.
Do not see these impact factors as absolute numbers. Just compare journals, but only within a discipline. Cross discipline comparison is not valid. But what is more important: submit to journals that are on your topic and have good visibility, preferable open access journals. Impact factors are not made to judge individual papers or researchers.
Impact factor is not a criteria for Good journal.You can judge the journal by downloading previous published articles as well as journal editorial members.
You can also use this free tool link for finding Good Journals:
As Jeroen Bosman said, the value of impact factors should be compared within a specific filed. We can compare impact factor of a journal in Political Science with another journal in it, not with a journal in Medicine.
if the impact factor is high for instance more than 4 , then it is good.
Higher impact higher exposure to the community.
Always try ur article for higher impact factor but novelty matters alot. Usually medical or bio journals carry higher impact more than 150. If u r a Aeronautical then 4 is a big thing
Although impact factor is important, I am of the opinion that the quality of articles published by a good peer- reviewed journal should be of utmost importance
The higher the Impact Factor, the better the journal. For example the 2.88 means that on average, any article published in that journal will be cited 2.88 times. You would have to compare this journal to journals in the same field to determine how it compares.