
What other metrics are available for journals in my area?
JCR provides additional metrics relating to individual journals. These include the 5-year Impact Factor which is based on citation counts to papers published in a journal over a five year period instead of the normal two years in the traditional impact factor. This is considered useful as in some fields it takes longer than two years for citations to appear.
Another useful metric is the Immediacy Index number. This number represents the average number of times a paper is cited in the year in which it is published. This is useful when looking at journals which cover cutting-edge research.
Let’s take a look at how we retrieve these metrics…
My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University
of Ireland, Maynooth and the NDLR adapted by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed
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