Follow these steps to find the impact factor of a journal: 1. Go to Web of Science: www.webofknowledge.com. You can access Web of Science with your WUR account. 2. In the top bar, click ‘Journal Citation Reports’.
The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times its articles are cited.
The calculation is based on a two-year period and involves dividing the number of times articles were cited by the number of articles that are citable.
A/B = 2010 impact factorCalculation of 2010 IF of a journal:A = the number of times articles published in 2008 and 2009 were cited by indexed journals during 2010.B = the total number of "citable items" published in 2008 and 2009.
The Impact Factor is reported in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
CiteScore, which is similar to the IF but is based on a 4-year period.
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