REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
IMPACT FACTOR OF A JOURNAL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Performance of article
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Performance of Journal
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Performance of author
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times its articles are cited.
Detailed explanation-2: -You can look up the impact factor of a journal through the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database. A journal’s impact factor is a measure of how often the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
Detailed explanation-3: -The journal impact factor (JIF) measures the number of times an average article, published in the previous two years in a particular science journal, was cited in a given year. This scientometric index is also known as the impact factor (IF).