Impact Factor of Non-SCI journals

[Prabir G. Dastidar]

Thank you so much, Adam for clearing my doubt.
Thanks once again.

Best,

Prabir

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Adam Finch <adam.t.finch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Hi Prabir,
>
> One could write a lot in response to your questions, so I'll try to keep it
> brief.
>
> 1) I know of no websites that store the IFs of non-Science Citation Index
> journals, other than the Social Science Citation Index journals that appear
> on ISI's Journal Citation Report. However, Web of Science actually stores
> all the citations from journals it indexes to any cited material. This means
> you can construct a 'pseudo' Impact Factor. Because the non-SCI journal
> won't be indexed, that pseudo Impact Factor will of course be missing self
> citations, but you can trawl the journal's articles and put them back in if
> you like. You can search for citations to any journal, including non-SCI
> titles, in the Cited Reference Search area of Web of Science. Bear in mind
> ISI will have abbreviated the titles, so you'll have to construct your seach
> string carefully - see instructions on the site for more information.
>
> 2) The SJR is quite different to the Impact Factor in that it has a three
> year rather than two year target window, ignores self citations and is, of
> course, based on the Scopus dataset rather than the ISI one. More
> importantly still, citations in the SJR are weighted according to the impact
> of the citing journal. Can it give an indication of impact? Certainly. Is it
> as useful as the Impact Factor? That's very much open to debate. Personally
> I've had some issues with Scopus data quality but that may just be me, and
> fewer people are aware of/prioritise the SJR. Also, without the ability to
> deconstruct the SJR, we have no way of being sure it includes all relevant
> citations.
>
> 3) Yes, as long as you don't try to compare one journal's IF with another
> journal's SJR - they are very different metrics indeed and can't be placed
> alongside one another meaningfully. If you intend to use a metric to publise
> a journal, however, the IF is probably more useful because more people know
> about it. Even Elsevier, as far as I know, don't often put the SJR of a
> title on their journal homepages. Of course, a lot of stakeholders will only
> take notice of an Impact Factor if it has been calculated by ISI themselves.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Prabir G. Dastidar <prabirgd11 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear All,
>> 1. Can you please suggest some websites to get the impact factors of
>> Non-SCI journals? If there is any.
>>
>> 2. SCIMago gives journal rankings; to what extent it can be used to
>> understand impact of a journal?
>>
>> 2.1 Can it be used in place of IF of JCR?
>>
>> I will be grateful for your suggestion.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Prabir
>>
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