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|Is About=A journal’s ‘Impact Factor’ (IF) gives an indication of journal influence. The IF is a measure of the number of citations divided by the number of published articles in a journal.<ref>Garfield E. The history and meaning of the journal impact factor. Jama. 2006;295(1):90-3.</ref>

It is calculated for an entire year, taking into account number of citations in that year to all items published in the previous two years, and divided with a number of scholarly items (article, review, proceedings paper) in the previous two years.<ref>Clarivate. Journal Citations Report Help: Glossary. Accessed: 2023-02-08. URL: https://jcr.help.clarivate.com/Content/jcr3-glossary.htm</ref> For example, the 2018 IF of a journal reflects the number of times all items published in the journal in 2016 and 2017 were cited in 2018, divided by the number of scholarly items published in the journal in 2016 and 2017.
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|Important Because=Impact factors are important because they provide an indication of quality of a scientific journal. The idea is that journals with higher IFs are read more frequently, have more of an impact within a field, and are of higher quality. They are also important because some academic institutions ask for publications in journals with high IFs for acquiring a PhD or advancement.<ref>Casadevall A, Fang FC. Impacted science: impact is not importance: MBio. 2015 Oct 13;6(5):e01593-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01593-15. eCollection 2015 Sep-Oct.</ref> Journal IFs are calculated each year by Clarivate (former Thomson Scientific or Thomson Reuters) and published on Journal Citation Reports platform.

Impact factors, however, can be manipulated. Examples of practices that influence IF are self and cartel citations, limitations of citable items, acceptance of certain types of publications.<ref>Sharma M, Sarin A, Gupta P, Sachdeva S, Desai AV. Journal impact factor: its use, significance and limitations. World J Nucl Med. 2014;13(2):1450-147.</ref> Self-citation is a practice of citing one’s own work, to artificially increase a number of citations. Citation cartel is a practice of mutual citing between journals to increase their IF.<ref>Fister I, Perc M. Toward the Discovery of Citation Cartels in Citation Networks. Frontiers in Physics. 2016;4(49).</ref> Editors can also insist that newly submitted manuscripts cite some of the works already published in that journal. Journals can limit a number of citable items, and not include them in the IF analysis. For example, letter to editor is a type of publication that is often referenced, and journals get the citation. However, that type of publication is not considered a scholarly item and it is therefore not included in the IF formula, thus increasing the IF. Journals can also choose to accept more review articles, which are often cited more, and can increase their IF that way.

It’s also important to note that it takes at least three years to calculate IF of the journal, and IF cannot be calculated for new journals. Because of all this, IF should be used cautiously when determining the quality of a journal, and other bibliometric data should be considered before making the final decision.<ref>Ioannidis JP, Boyack KW, Small H, Sorensen AA, Klavans R. Bibliometrics: Is your most cited work your best? Nature. 2014;514(7524):561-2.</ref><ref>Time to remodel the journal impact factor: Nature. 2016 Jul 28;535(7613):466. doi: 10.1038/535466a.</ref>
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|Has Best Practice=Advance data mining techniques can help identify impact factor manipulation. See [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-016-2144-6 this article].
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