How can I find out the impact factors of journals and what they actually mean? Is there a published list of what is an A, B or C journal?
You can find the impact factors in ISI Web of Knowledge for example, but even more often directly on the web site of the journals themselves. This is the case for most journals published by Elsevier.
About the meaning of IF, have a look there:
http://www.sciencegateway.org/impact/
Alain
The impact factor of a journal is the number of times it is cited on average an article published in a particular journal. It is a tool to compare journals and assess the relative importance of a journal within a scientific field.
The main tool for the impact factor of the publications is the JCR (Journal Citation Reports) prepared by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), but there are others.
Entering the JCR (Journal Citation Reports) select an issue depending on the subject area of the journal (JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences Edition). Select the year you want to see and check the option to search for specific journal. Type the title of the journal bibliometric data for the magazine with the impact factor.
Impact factor of a journal is an index based on the frequency with which a journal's articles are cited in scientific publications. In any given year, the impact factor of a journal is the average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years. It is derived by dividing the number of citations in year 3 to all articles published in the journal during preceding years 1 and 2 by the number of citable articles published in that journal in years 1 and 2.
The official impact factor is the one from WoS and it can be found here
https://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/ (valid subscription may be required)
Hi,
You may find out the impact factor of chemistry journal at Alfa Chemistry. It also provides many other information about chemistry.
https://www.alfa-chemistry.com/resources/impact-factor-list-of-chemistry-journal.htm
You check this link
https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fglobalimpactfactor.com%2F
Dear Brenna Joann Farrow, please have a look at the following link:
https://www.openacessjournal.com/impact-factor-list-journals
Use the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) available through the Web of Knowledge service. To check the impact factor of a specific journal you can search by title.Jun
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