Which Journal has the best impact factor?
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Which Journal has the best impact factor?
Nature
List of Top 100 Journals with Highest Impact Factor
| Rank | Journal Publication | Journal Home page |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nature – Impact Factor: 42.78 | View |
| 2. | The New England Journal of Medicine – Impact Factor: 74.7 | View |
| 3. | Science – Impact Factor: 41.84 | View |
| 4. | IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – Impact Factor: 45.17 | View |
Do impact factors matter?
Papers published in journals with higher impact factors tend, on average, to be better and more important than those in journals with lower ones. We are told that the impact factor should no longer be used, but not told what to use instead.
What is the lowest impact factor of a journal?
List of Journals with low impact factor
| Name of the Journal | Impact Factor |
|---|---|
| JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE | 0.171 |
| AMA-Agricultural Mechanization in Asia Africa and Latin America | 0.17 |
| ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY | 0.167 |
| ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY | 0.167 |
What is the difference between impact score and impact factor?
A primary difference between these two metrics is the period of time for the calculation; while the Journal Impact Factor calculates the metric using the two previous years as a basis for the citation count, CiteScore uses a three-year period.
What is the average impact factor?
An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time. An Impact Factor of 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited two and a half times.
What is a 5 year impact factor?
The ISI 5-Year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the given Journal Citation Report (JCR) year.
