We know, the Impact Factor (IF) is considered the number one ranking value for scientific journals. Impact Factors are a benchmark of a journal's reputation and reflect how frequently peer-reviewed journals are cited by other researchers in a particular year.
Otherwise, indexation of a journal is considered a reflection of its quality. Indexed journals are considered to be of higher scientific quality as compared to non-indexed journals.
My discussion topic is: Which one is more important between high impact factor journal or reputed indexes journal in case of publishing scientific articles. I think, they are closely related. But, which one is preferred at first?
Waiting for your kind reply.
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Dear Afjal,
It depends who estimate the journal or the paper. In some countries IF is important. It must be explained that IF is a measure of the journals indexed in JCR in Thompson Reuters. Other important database Scopus has their own measures for journals indexed in this database.
But I know, in some countries IF, indexations etc are not important they have thair own rules and standards of journals and paper evaluation.
By the way why you consider this evaluations ? You should ask the evaluation body what is important to them
I agree with previous responses. Actually the journal which are indexed in JCR of Thomson Reuters and Scopus, normally had the IF. But the IF score depends on citation. Here, I am attaching the recent report of JCR, you can find suitable journals of your research area. Thanks.
Dear M. I. Afjal
To increase visibility, availability, and readership of a journal, its publication must be indexed by one or more leading databases. The quality of a journal can be measured by assessing the indexation of that particular journal. Among various indexing databases, PubMed, EMBASE, EBSCO, SCOPUS, MedLine, SCIRUS are few main databases. Before choosing a database, it is important to understand the features it provides and the field of publication. IF do not tell us as much as some people may think about the respective quality of the science that journals are publishing. Regardless of a journal indexed in prominent databases, it is not necessary that the journal will have an IF. However, it is certain that IFs are still a standard administrators and researchers worldwide as a criterion to judges the quality of a journal, or even the quality of information or an individual. IFs will exist for a long time.
A good solution is to develop, increase the importance, use both Impact Factor and Indexing. In addition, indirectly these two important issues are mutually supportive.
Best wishes
Even though, there is no the right conception for the majority of students and researchers in many countries to know about the IF but I think the index is more importantly effective than IF.
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