I have read many topics to understand the impact factor of journal. The confusion is how some journals, for example in Springer, do not have an impact factor?
From discussion in this website and some others, I found that it is due to two reasons: either the journal is new or the quality of published articles is low which effect the score of IF.
Let's take an example, the International Journal of Speech Technology starts publishing from 1997 - 2019. It has 22 volumes, 75 issues and 820 articles as shown in their page in this link:
https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10772
I am not expert in speech technology to disprove the second reason and judge the quality of papers being published in this journal but I want to understand if it is really due to the quality of published articles or some other reasons.
At the end, I am taking this journal as an example.
Please clarify me....
Hi,
Journals that have an impact factor are those indexed in the WoS database. This database has several conditions that a journal has to fulfill to be indexed in it.One of the requirements is a citation threshold. A journal that is not indexed in the WoS databases could have other impacts , such as the Google Scholar citations or the Scopus CitScore.
Ali - good response from Avishag,
The main reasons for journals not having WoS Impact Factors is:
1. They are new journals that have yet to establish themselves.
2. They have not applied for IF accreditation. They may not want to be 'shackled' by what they regard as (while the most common metric) a flawed citation system. As Avishad alludes to - they may prefer other metrics - such as Scopus.
3. The journal may be very 'niche' and discipline-specific which means low citation - but this is not a problem for the journal.
4. They are potentially 'dubious' journals (some predatory - some not so predatory) that have a vested interest in 'flying under the radar - and avoiding citation scrutiny. This is not 'automatic' - so one needs to do their 'homework' and look for all the known red-flags before deciding if the journal sits in this category.
The impact factor (IF) is an indicator that indirectly estimates the visibility of a scientific journal. a journal with a high IF would thus be considered more important (because it is more visible: more read and more quoted) than a journal with a low IF.
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