What is Web of Science? Impact factor - is the average citations per ARTICLES

the average citations per ARTICLES

a search platform that combines abstract databases of publications in

scientific journals and patents, including databases that take into account the mutual citation of publications, developed and provided by Thomson Reuters. Web of Science covers materials on natural, technical, social, humanities and arts. The platform has built-in capabilities to search, analyze and manage bibliographic information.

Web of Science

Index
Data Citation index
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Russian Science Citation Index
SciELO Citation Index
Zoological

Record
Derwent Innovations Index
Medline

Resources on the Web of Science platform

of scientists, a number of scientometric indicators are applied (for

example, the number of publications, the Hirsch index, the same h-index, etc.). There are several alternative systems that calculate these indicators, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages : eLIBRARY.ru, Google Scholar.

the importance of a scientific journal. Since the 1960s, it

has been calculated annually by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 1992 and is now called Thomson Scientific, and is published in the journal Journal Citation Report.
According to the IF, the level of journals is assessed, the quality of the articles published in them, provides financial support to researchers and accepts employees for work. Impact factor has, though a large, but ambiguously estimated impact on the evaluation of research results.

Impact factor

three-year period. For example, the impact factor of the magazine

in 2014 I2014 is calculated as follows: I2014 = A / B, where: A - number of citations during 2014 in Scientific Information, articles published in this journal in 2012-2013; B is the number of articles published in this journal in 2012-2013 .

Method of calculation

its type; From year to year it can vary significantly,

for example, dropping to extremely low values when changing the name of the journal and so on. Nevertheless, for today IF is one of the important criteria by which it is possible to compare the level of scientific research in close fields of knowledge.

Advantages and disadvantages

literature - more than 8,400 journals from 60 countries are

indexed;
The results are public and easily accessible;
Simplicity in understanding and use;
Journals with high IF usually have a more stringent peer review system than logs with low IF.