(iwr.co.uk): After Thomson Reuters released the 2009 Journal Citation Report (JCR) with features including five-year Impact Factors (IFs), Eigenfactor metrics, rank-in category tables and journal “self-citations”, publishers have rushed in to lay claims on the influence and power of their journals in the academic world. Impact Factors are a method of measuring the influence which a journal has on the scientific community. Calculated by Thomson Reuters, they are designed to indicate how many times the published articles of a journal are cited during the course of a year, providing an insight to how much ‘impact’ the journal is making on the scientific community.
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