University of Islamic Azad

Branch of Science and Research

Faculty of Convergent Sciences

Q. Factor

Supervised by: Dr. Amir Hossein Sari

Prepared by: Rasha Saad Yousif
Quality Factor of Non-Olympic Times (NOT)

The Non-Olympic Times is a non-profit publication

firmentity within the International Non-Olympic
Committee chapter.
Introduction

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

measure quality of 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.
About the Quality Factor
The Non-Olympic Times 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 Process Map
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 + Q4 + Q5 + Q6 + Q7
+ Q8 + Q9 + Q10 + Q11 + Q12 + Q13 + Q14 + Q15
Audit Parameters
The Audit parameters and grid for Quality Factor
calculation purpose are listed below.
Journal Quality Factor Reports
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.
Categories of Quality Factor Status
There are three classes of Quality factor Status
defined by NOT-2016/21, General, Special & Roster.
General Status Journal: High quality factor (QF: 5 &
above).
Special Status Journal: Intermediate quality factor
(QF: 3.5 to 4.9).

Roster Status Journal: Low quality factor (QF: Below

3.4).
Quality Factor Report
Quartile Ranking or Q Index

A quartile is the ranking of a journal or paper definite

by any database based on the impact factor (IF),
citation, and indexing of that particular journal. It can
divide into four different quadrants starting with Q1,
Q2, Q3, and Q4.
Q Index

Q index simply means quartile which is the ranking of

any journal that belongs to a specific or particular
field of discipline and also known as the parameter of
measuring or ranking of a journal.
Quartiles

In addition to the Impact Factor or Impact Index, rankings of

journals in each subject category are divided into quartiles by
both JCR (Journal Citation Reports) and SJR (SCImago Journal
Rank).

These quartiles rank the journals from highest to lowest based

on their impact factor or impact index. There are four quartiles:
Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4.
Quartiles

The quartile rank indexing agency yearly rankings of

science and social science journals. Hence the quartile
rankings are therefore derived for each journal in each
of its subject categories according to which quartile of
the impact factor (IF) allocates that this journal
occupies for that subject category and this defined the
ranking of the journal.
Quartiles Ranking

Quartile 1(Q1): The first position of the top 25% of

journals in a particular category are placed in this
category (top 25%).

Quartile 2 (Q2): The middle-high position subsequent

occupied by 25% Journal after quartile 1 fall under
this category (between top 25% to 50%).
Quartiles Ranking

Quartile 3 (Q3): The middle-low position next 25%

Journal title after Q2 fall under this category (between
50% to 75%).

Quartile 4 (Q4): The last or lowest position following

25% Journal title of a selected field will fall under this
category (between 75% to 100%).
Metrics

Different indexing metrics i.e., SCImago Journal

Rank, Science Journal Rank, Social science journal
rank, Scopus journal rank, etc. has a different policy
of calculating the impact factor (IF) and citation and
simultaneously modification in the quartile ranking.
Journal Citation Reports: Quartile Rankings

Journal Citation Reports, provide quartile rankings

based on rank for the Journal Impact Factor. In
Journal Citation Reports, quartiles are defined as the
following:
Journal Citation Reports: Quartile Rankings

Q10.0 < Z ≤ 0.25

Highest ranked journals in a category

Q20.25 < Z ≤ 0.5

Q30.5 < Z ≤ 0.75

Q40.75 < Z
Lowest ranked journals in a category
Journal Citation Reports: Quartile Rankings

Z is defined as:

Z=(X/Y)
Where X is the journal rank in category and Y is the
number of journals in the category.
Journal Citation Reports: Quartile Rankings

Examples:

When sorted by Impact Factor, if a journal is rank 78

out of 314 in a category, Z = ( 78 / 314 ) = 0.248
which is a Q1 journal.
When sorted by Impact Factor, if a journal is rank 102
out of 204 in a category, Z = ( 102 / 204 ) = 0.5 which
is a Q2 journal.
Significancy of Journals

The most prestigious journals within a subject area

are those occupying the first quartile, Q1. The
importance of the other journals declines as we move
down through the quartiles.
SJR : Scientific Journal Rankings - SCImago

Metrics based on Scopus® data as of April 2021

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