Ahmed - probably the most used contemporary ‘bibliometrics’ for IF are sourced from the US-based company, Thomson Reuters Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge, via annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The JCR have both ‘science’ and ‘social science’ editions, which provide discipline-specific lists of journals, detailing the IF and other information, such as an ‘immediacy index’ (how quickly an average article in a journal is cited), and ‘cited half-life’ (the rate of continuing citations to a journal’s articles). Other popular ‘alternative’, but less conservative, bibliometric databases are the likes of Scopus and Google Scholar.

A word of caution though with IF.There are numerous critiques demonstrating conceptual and technical reasons why the impact factor is not necessarily an ideal indicator for evaluating research and journals. For example:

- less than 5% of all journals are actually included in these databases and indexes

- English-language, and in particular US-based journals, are favoured

- impact factors are sometimes based on levels of readership rather than the quality of published research.

Ahmed - probably the most used contemporary ‘bibliometrics’ for IF are sourced from the US-based company, Thomson Reuters Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge, via annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The JCR have both ‘science’ and ‘social science’ editions, which provide discipline-specific lists of journals, detailing the IF and other information, such as an ‘immediacy index’ (how quickly an average article in a journal is cited), and ‘cited half-life’ (the rate of continuing citations to a journal’s articles). Other popular ‘alternative’, but less conservative, bibliometric databases are the likes of Scopus and Google Scholar.

A word of caution though with IF.There are numerous critiques demonstrating conceptual and technical reasons why the impact factor is not necessarily an ideal indicator for evaluating research and journals. For example:

- less than 5% of all journals are actually included in these databases and indexes

- English-language, and in particular US-based journals, are favoured

- impact factors are sometimes based on levels of readership rather than the quality of published research.

Impact factor measures only a journal’s quality, but never as an indicator of an individual’s or an article’s scientific merit. In the recent past, some newer alternative indices are proposed by number of scholars such as h-index, SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), etc

Thanks for your answers

Dear Ahmed Abd El-Gawad,

I think following websites may help for you.

https://academic-accelerator.com/

impactfactor.cn/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en (Google metrics)