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Google Scholar: Journal Impact and Where to Publish

This Guide was adapted from a Guide Created by Kathy Fester, Aldephi University Libraries. Kathy Fester provided permission to adapt this guide. My thanks and appreciation. http://libguides.adelphi.edu/content.php?pid=364890

Directory of Open Access Journals

General Impact Factor.com

The General Impact Factor (GIF) provides quantitative and qualitative ranking, evaluating the journals for evaluation and excellence. This factor is used for evaluating the prestige of journals. The evaluation is carried out by considering the factors like peer review originality, scientific quality, technical editing quality, editorial quality and regularity and other factors.

The General Impact Factor (GIF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, patent document, thesis, project reports, news papers, conference/ seminar proceedings, documents published in internet, notes and any other approved documents. It is measure the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals of higher journal impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journal Impact factors are calculated in yearly/half- yearly/ Quarterly/Monthly for those journals that are indexed in Journal Reference Reports (JRR).

The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor is highly dependent on the academic discipline, possibly on the speed with which papers get cited in a field. The percentage of total citations occurring in the first two years after publication varies highly among disciplines from 1–3% in the mathematical and physical sciences to 5–8% in the biological sciences. Thus impact factors cannot be used to compare journals across disciplines. The impact factor is based on the arithmetic mean number of citations per paper, yet citation counts follow a and therefore the arithmetic mean is a statistically inappropriate measure.

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Avoiding Predatory Publishers

Avoiding Predatory Publishers

How do you avoid publishing with a Predatory Publisher?

Reputable Open Access Journals should meet the following standards:  

  • Provide unfettered (freely accessible) access to all peer-reviewed articles.
  • Be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OR adhere to its Code of Conduct.
  • Offer a standard article fee schedule for public view.
  • Have a policy to waive fees in cases of economic hardship.
  • The journal should be indexed in a major indexing and abstracting service such as Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and others.   You can confirm the locations where a journal is indexed by consulting withEbscoHost Serials Directory  Call up or email your Manhattaville University Library Liaison if you aren’t sure how to check these details.
  • Most open access journals allow the author to retain their copyright.
  • If a journal you are considering publishing in is sending up red flags by not meeting these standards, it might be better to consider another place to publish your article.

Adapted from University Libraries--University of Illnois http://researchguides.uic.edu/c.php?g=252603&p=1684024

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