Computing the Impact Factor: Methodologies and Controversies
The impact factor (IF) has become a pivotal metric in evaluating the influence as well as prestige of academic journals. Actually devised by Eugene Garfield in the early 1960s, the impact factor quantifies the average quantity of citations received per pieces of paper published in a journal in a specific time frame. Despite it has …
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