Saturday, June 13, 2015

 

how to find impact factor of a journal , top & preferred journals

General overview on impact factor

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/services/library/research/ref-and-bibliometrics/journal-impact-factors

Web of science of Thomsons Reuter currenly keep the journal citation record that is usually known as original impact factor. Now it is also mentioned as Science Citation Index Expanded(SCIE) impact is actually Thomospon Reuter oringinal impact factor.

Thomson Reuters Master Journal List – here ISSN no or full name of the journal title may be put on to know whether it is in original ISI indexed. However to know the impact factor you or your organization need to get paid subscription. But searching in google you may find out the ISI impact factor that is also called now SCIE impact factor.

http://www.bioxbio.com/if/
It is a good place to find impact factor directly


A long list of ISI indexed journal with abbreviation
http://www.efm.leeds.ac.uk/~mark/ISIabbr/I_abrvjt.html

List of top journals in different fields of study
http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=326902&sid=2674983

List of preferred journals in Dfs
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/en/organisation/departments/design-engineering/research-areas

Not that authentic but kind of guide impact factor based on some criteria could be found here:
http://www.scijournal.org/impact-factor-of-IJSER.shtml

Tutoirial on how to find list of journals that are indexed in ISI web of scinece
http://www.umlib.um.edu.my/scontents.asp?tid=28&cid=137&p=1&vs=en#sthash.abCPFXs0.dpbs



Some journals may cite other type of impact factor with the name of the source in the bracket. For example, impact factor(JCC). Beware of such impact factor because such impact factor may not be accepted for evaluation in your university.
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