What is a good ISI impact factor?

What is a good ISI impact factor?

In most fields, the impact factor of 10 or greater is considered an excellent score while 3 is flagged as good and the average score is less than 1. However, the impact factor is best read in terms of subject matter in the form of the 27 research disciplines identified in the JournalCitation Reports.

How do I find the impact factor of ISI?

The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time.

What are ISI indexed journals?

A journal is indexed in the Web of Science is used to be called an ISI journal. ISI means the Institute for Scientific Information, which developed and produced the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI).

How do I find ISI indexed journals?

To check if your manuscript is indexed in the ISI Web of Science, you can log on to the following url http://mjl.clarivate.com/. Once you log in you can simply search by the full journal name or the ISSN number. The search result will show if your target journal is indexed in SCI, SCI-E, or ESCI.

What is ISI Journal Citation Reports?

Journal Citation Reports (or JCR) is a product of ISI Web of Knowledge and is an authoratative resource for impact factor data. This database provides impact factors and rankings of many journals in the social and life sciences based on millions of citations.

Which is better ISI or Scopus?

In general, Scopus provides a higher citation count than ISI, both in the Sciences and in the Social Sciences and Humanities. In the Sciences, this increase in only marginal (except for Computer Science), whilst in the Social Sciences and Humanities, this increase is substantial.

What is ISI and Scopus?

ISI-International Scientific Indexing: high quality peer-reviewed publications. JCR-Journal Citation Report. Scopus: Elsevier’s abstract and citation database. All of them are used as indexed cites.

How do you identify Q1 Q4 ISI indexed journals?

Each subject category of journals is divided into four quartiles: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. Q1 is occupied by the top 25% of journals in the list; Q2 is occupied by journals in the 25 to 50% group; Q3 is occupied by journals in the 50 to 75% group and Q4 is occupied by journals in the 75 to 100% group.

Are ISI indexed journals are good?

Both of ISI and SCOPUS are internationally recommend. Dear Ahmed, the most important is to publish good results in a good journal with a good Impact factor. If you want to publish your first paper, start by journal with low impact factor (IF =1 to 2 or less than 1).