Understanding the Material Science and Engineering Journal Impact Factor So, what exactly is this "Impact Factor" everyone ...

Understanding the Nature Materials Journal Impact Factor So, what’s this "Impact Factor" thing everyone talks about, ...

Medical publishing, one of the oldest continuous scientific traditions, is growing exponentially. New medical journals dedicated to increasingly niche microcosms are being created every day. Yet ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the bureau ...

CRANBURY, N.J., July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), the leading multimedia peer-reviewed journal dedicated to issues in managed care, today announced that ...

A measure originally intended for ranking the value of journals to researchers may have a distorting influence on publishers, as well as on agencies that finance research, writes Hannah Brown, a ...

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value. A journal’s impact factor ...

Chicago, June 30, 2023 – JAMA and the journals in the JAMA Network are among the highest in their respective fields, according to the 2023 update to Clarivate’s annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). ...

Amsterdam, 29 June 2009 – Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, is pleased to announce that Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. Scientists, like other professionals, need ways to evaluate themselves and their colleagues. These evaluations are ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...