SJIF impact factor is not a correct information about a  journal. One has to verify the quality of the  articles published in that  journal to assess it.

The impact factor information supplied by Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation report is authentic one.

Following link may help you identifying some misleading metrics

http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/

Thank you for the information..

The impact factor of journals is revised and released every year during the month of June by Thomson Reuters. New journals keep on adding each and every year. These journals are called ISI journals. The impact factor for 2013 will be released this month or early next month. Keep checking the Thomson reuters web or ISI web of knowledge site (licensed)

See:   Impact Factor Confusion: Spam Emails Mislead Researchers

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/05/20/impact-factor-confusion-spam-emails-mislead-researchers/

SJIF impact factor is not a correct information about a  journal. One has to verify the quality of the  articles published in that  journal to assess it.

SJIF impact factor can be purchased for $ 50 and get within even one week from payment of this amount (see: http://www.sjifactor.inno-space.org/). That says a lot about his bibliometric value to the world of science

@E M Mohammed

Ya, I agree with you, We shall verify the quality of the paper, But How?

Still, the impact factor is an index; & it is not the only one.

Finally, we have the right to assess and criticize.

Dears,

You may go through this link, It is based on the Scopus® database.

Heartiest Wishes,

Azd.

http://www.scimagojr.com/aboutus.php

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hello

what  means of the( SJIF )

Thank you all for information. You saved me from publishing in fake impact journals.

 That is easy. Go to the ISI Journal Citation Reports (Thomson-Reuters Web of Science) or SCImago Journal Rankings at http://www.scimagojr.com/

Both are respected by community, Though ISI remains somewhat more popular. You can also believe IF reported by main scientific publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc) providing they are not based in India...

Some kind of information if we want to check whether the journal is indexed in scopus or isi, we can check thru Journal Citation Reports from Scopus.

Is it the monopoly of the Thompson Reuters of giving impact factor? Are there some other standards that are trustworthy?  I have read papers that says that the metrics of web of science also not give the correct citation picture!

Any comments?

My worry is that ISI is promoted by Thomson and ScimagoJR by Elsevier. Both are prestigious publishing companies. Anyway, I am using both in my CV. Do you know if Is there any other international journal rank that we can use to set the impact of our papers? what about conference papers? what conference rank are you using?

thanks!

Interesting! thank you!!

What is SJIF impact factor? 

SJIF is scientific journal  impact factor

How to compare SJIF AND Thompson Reuters impact factor ?

There is no comparison at all. Thompson Reuters impact factor is authentic and globally accepted.

Be careful, many journal is just focus make money. many journal is fake journal. so you need consider carefully before submit manuscript. They are not strust . Many young scientist were cheated by them. I suggest you submit your paper to ISI, SCI, SCIE 

Have fun

THERE ARE MANY MANY FAKE JOURNALS IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT PROPER EDITOR'S ADDRESS, WRONG IMPACT FACTORS, WRONG EDITORIAL BOARD, CONTAINING ALL KINDS OF PAPERS EVEN WITHOUT VERIFYING WHETHER THOSE ARE PUBLISHED EARLIER. BEWARE OF SUCH JOURNALS.

YES. Khoi Quang Nguyen IS PERFECTLY CORRECT.

Yes very true

JCR published by Thomson Reuters is authentic - used to be called ISI - now there is a fake ISI - beware! Second is by Elsevier - SCIMAGO on Scopus. Third (free) is Google Scholar. Others are all questionable - do not be deceived.

This article is very interesting and I would like to share it with you :

I have seen some journals claiming a Google Scholar impact factor but as far as I know, they only publish stats for authors and top journals (top 100 overall, top 20 in specific fields).

The nearest I can get to this is searching on source:"Journal name", which gives you an indication, if you look at citation counts of the papers, of its impact. However, when I tried this on source:"South African Computer Journal" (which I edit), I got a lot of things that should not count towards impact factor like frontmatter; probably Scopus and ISI are more selective on what they count as a publication.

A journal that is added to an index may take a while to develop meaningful stats; Scopus, for example, uses the last 3 years to calculate its cite score; for the first 3 years on the index you are relying on very recent articles and it is seldom that a citation count builds up that fast even for a paper that is eventually widely cited

I suspect some editors are creating a fake Google Scholar profile for a journal by claiming themselves an “author” of every paper they publish (you can do that on Google Scholar). This is something that can easily be gamed as the editor can remove papers that aren’t cited from the profile.

It is a fact that Thomson Reuters’ JCR Impact Factor is the most reliable and authentic one, and is the only measure that is considered for the purposes of academic evaluation. Other metrics such as the Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF), Universal Impact Factor (UIF), Global Impact Factor (GIF), etc. are products of other indexing companies. Most reputable journals prefer to get indexed in JCR. Thus, as you have rightly said, for most academic purposes such as selection for academic interviews, awarding tenure, etc., SJIF will not be considered.

True..

I would say that the only one option of impact factor(Thompson) weakens to the elimination of the possibilities of publications that can bring contributions to the science they cover.Anyway this publications are an added value shown by being references in publications.

Only trust Thomson Reuters’ JCR Impact Factor

Thomson Reuters’ JCR Impact Factor is the most preferred and accepted by all.

SJIF impact factor calculation is not authentic as there fake journals whose only motto is to make money and thus cheat the researchers. Be aware of these fraudulent. Cheers

Dear Xuhua Xia ,

A good paper should be considered a contribution, no matter what. But having said that, the paper's visibility and trustworthy status does depend on the journal.

That is to say, a very good paper on a very obscure journal risks being ignored, and only years later, when others have rediscover the same facts, might someone call back the attention to that lost paper, that was right, but was mistrusted.

Sticking to widely accepted indexed journals seems not a bad idea.

Beware of Predatory journals with fake impact factor. Before publishing your article, check if the journal is listed in the

List of Predatory Journals.

https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/#I

Sure and also check the JCR (clarivate) to verify is the journal is indexed. It does not certify the quality of the journal, but it tells you about how serious the publisher is ( if it publishes regularly, has a verified peer-review, and the editors are for real).