Hello
I have a struggle with this issue, I get email from different journals claiming they have Impact factors of 2 or 3 and sometimes even higher, but they are not indexed in JCR or scopus and I can't check their impact factor in those places.
I know some of them may lie so we send our papers to their journal and they charge some APC, but if some of them tell the truth, how can someone check it?
Thanks in advance
Dear Mahmood Dashti ,
In most of the cases you refer to, you can be sure that the impact factor is fake. There are numerous so-called fake metrics (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/), like:
-CiteFactor misleadingly looks like CiteScore (from Scopus)
-ISI Indexing Scientific Services misleadingly refer to ISI (from Thomson Reuters) that use to be the organisation that assigns impact factors (nowadays this is Clarivate)
-Global Impact Factor one of the many fake metrics that use the term “Impact Factor” while only journals indexed in Clarivate’s SCIE and SSCI have a genuine impact factor
You can check whether a journal is indexed in one of Clarivate’s databases here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home and as said only those indexed in SCIE/SSCI will have an impact factor. The impact factor itself can be checked in the latest JCR report (see enclosed file). Whether a journal is Scopus indexed and has a CiteScore assigned can be checked here https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri?zone=TopNavBar&origin=searchbasic. For the most updated list (and possible discontinuation of a title) you can check the latest Scopus source list (https://www.scopus.com/home.uri scroll down the page) and/or see the enclosed list.
Hope this answers your question somewhat.
Best regards.
Papers indexed in JCR or Scopus .journal have impact factors . Only mentioning impact factors and not listing in Scopus or JCR has no. much credit.
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