Perhaps the most problematic classification system in the scientific community is that of the impact factor, which attempts to rank journals by their relative importance. This factor for a particular ...

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value. A journal’s impact factor ...

Chicago, June 30, 2023 – JAMA and the journals in the JAMA Network are among the highest in their respective fields, according to the 2023 update to Clarivate’s annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). ...

Previously published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), EHP was one of the few peer-reviewed ...

IEEE journals score in top tier in latest Impact Factor and CiteScore rankings PISCATAWAY, N.J., 17 July 2024 — IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...

PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

Academics today, around the world, are confined by the way their research output is measured. Indicators that count the ...