Eugene Garfield Institute for Scientific Information, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S .A Email: [email protected] ! It is well known that uninformed science administrators offen use ISl's journal impact factors without taking into account the inherent citation characteristics of individual scientific disciplines. A rank normalized impact factor (rnlF) is proposed whic...

One disadvantage of the JCR impact factor, the most commonly used assessment tool for ranking and evaluating scientific journals, is its inability in distinguishing among different shapes of citation distribution curves, leading to unfair evaluation of journals in some cases. This paper aims to put forward an alternative impact factor (IF') that can properly reflect citation distributions. The ...

On June 14th, 2016, the Bauru School of Dentistry (FOB), University of São Paulo (USP) received with huge enthusiasm the great news of the 1.117 impact factor for the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), 2015 Science Edition. Out of the 89 journals indexed in this database in the Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine category, JAOS is now ranked in the 56t...

Last year our journal received the financial support of the Slovenian National Research Agency (ARRS). An important parameter in determining the level of support is the journal’s impact factor for the previous year. Luckily, our official impact factor for the year 2012 was 0.67, which for the first time put AMC into the second quartile among mathematical journals covered by the ISI. The flow of...

this article gives an overview of the islamic world science citation center's (isc) journal citation reports (jcr) database. isc-jcr is the only source of citation data on islamic countries’ leading journals and covers journals in english, arabic and persian languages. it provides information on highest impact journals in a field, the most cited journals and hottest journals. this database allo...