The
impact factor, often abbreviated
IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of
citations to recent articles published in
science and social science journals. 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 (ISI), now part of
Thomson Reuters. Impact factors are calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in
Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports.
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