How much is Impact Factor worth? | IEEE ... - IEEE Xplore
ieeexplore.ieee.org › document › 8781744Jun 12, 2019 · The purpose of this work is to present an aspect of counting citations, which is correlated to the Impact Factor, very important for journals in scientific communication, and provides information about the position of a scientific journal in a particular research area. Sometimes citations don't count in a research output, e.g. if an article is published in a predatory journal. Those journals ...
The impact of the impact factor | IEEE Journals & Magazine ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org › document › 1599207The impact of the impact factor. Abstract: This paper provides a brief introduction to the impact factor (IF), a number that judges the importance of a scientific/engineering journal. Using a simple equation, the IF can be determined and used to indicate the importance of a journal. While a correlation exists between the journal IF and the quality of the journal, comparing IF between two disciplines may not be fair.