SUBTITLE BY: SAIF KAZEM RADHI

SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR: DR. AMIR HOSSEIN SARI

 About The Quality Factor

• The Quality Factor (QF) of an academic journal is to measure quality

in that journal. It is commonly used as a representation for the
significance of a journal within its field, journals with higher Quality
Factors considered to be more important than those with lower
ones. The Quality Factor was planned by Professor Dr.Mohemmed
Seraj Ansari (President of International Non-Olympic Committee)
&Concept was taken from Q Factor originated with K.S. Johnson of
Western Electric Company's Engineering Department. Quality
Factor calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in the
Journal Quality Factor Reports.
 Quality Factor Calculation

• Journal Selection Criteria: Academic journal necessity to have ISSN

number is the eligible criteria to get Quality Factor Measurement.

Quality Factor is calculated using the below formula:

Quality Factor = Q1+Q2+Q3+…….+Q15

THE AUDIT PARAMETERS AND GRID FOR QUALITY FACTOR
CALCULATION PURPOSE ARE LISTED BELOW.

Based on the above criteria all journals will be measured yearly and share the
Quality Factor ranking to improve the journal standards. The Journal Quality factor
Reports (JQR) will be published and also includes a previous year quality factor. The
JQR also shows rankings of journals by Quality Factor.
:Quality Factor Criticisms
• Frequent criticisms have been made of the use of a quality factor. For one
thing, the quality factor might not be consistently reproduced in an
independent audit bases on the journal data we evaluate the Quality Factor.
There is a more universal argument on the rationality of the quality factor as a
measure of journal standards and the effect of strategies that
editors/publishers may adopt to improvement their Quality factor. Other
criticism emphases on the consequence of the quality factor on performance
of scholars, editors and other patrons. Another reason that can undermine this
system is that there is a general inclination on the fragment of a mentioning
individual to be prejudiced by the already specified QF. Of any kind criticisms
about Quality Factor may not be true, public have to understand benefit of the
Quality Factor.
Difference Between Quality Factor And Impact Factor

Analysis: It's been quantified that impact factors is citation analysis and Quality Factor is
journal standard analysis which should not compare.
Arithmetic Method: The impact factor is based on the arithmetic mean number of citations
per paper, yet citation counts follow a Bradford distribution (i.e., a power law distribution) and
therefore the arithmetic mean is a statistically inappropriate measure.
Quality Factor is basic operations of arithmetic.
The addition of 15 whole gird numbers is the total of those quantities combined is Quality
Factor.
Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for those journals that are indexed in
the Journal Citation Reports.
Concept was taken from Q Factor originated with K.S. Johnson of Western Electric Company's
Engineering Department.
Quality Factor calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in the Journal Quality
Factor Reports. To strength impact factors of journals is only based on the Quality Factor.
Metric: It is important to note that impact factor is a journal metric and quality factor is a
journal standard metric both should not be used to assess individual researchers or
institutions.
 Categories Of Quality Factor Status

General Status: A system with high quality factor (QF: 5 & above) is said
to be General Status Journal.
Special Status: A system with Intermediate quality factor (QF: 3.5 to 4.9)
is said to be Special Status Journal.
Roster Status: A system with Low quality factor (QF: Below 3.4) is said to
be Roster Status Journal.
 APPLICATION PROCEDURE

• A Journal/Publication that wishes to obtain Quality factor status must submit an application
online for evaluation.
• After the application is screened by the NOT Branch, it will be reviewed by the reviewers
Committee.
• The Committee decides to recommend, or not recommend, granting status to the
Journals/publications. The final decision is taken by the NOT committee at its annual meeting
(February).
• Although the review made by the reviewer Committee is theoretically or practically.
Quality Factor Process Map
List of Journals in quality factor review status with the Journal
Quality Factor Report as of March 2016

Link of the Journal Quality Factor : http://www.qualityfactor.org/index.html