Quality

indicators of
research &
papers
Impact Factors for different types of article
The Impact Factor® (also known as the Journal
Impact Factor) is a proprietary product in Journal
Citation Reports, owned by Clarivate Analytics
(formerly Thomson Reuters).
CiteScore is the number of citations received by a journal in one
year from documents published in the three previous years,
divided by the number of documents indexed in Scopus published
in same three years.

Example
CiteScore for 2015 counts the citations received in 2015 to
documents published in 2012, 2013 or 2014, and divides this by
the number of documents published in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Journal Quality and
Indexing
A quartile is the ranking of a journal or paper 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.
Each subject category of journals is divided into four quartiles:
• Q1 : Top 25% of Journals in list
• Q2 : 25-50%
• Q3: 50-75%
• Q4: 75-100%

• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is one of the internationally recognized

standards for identifying the quartile of a journal.
https://www.scimagojr.com/
H-index
This index was devised by J. E. Hirsch who called
it h index.

Expresses the journal's number of articles (h)

that have received at least h citations.

It quantifies both journal scientific productivity

and scientific impact and it is also applicable to
scientists, countries, etc.

• Author’s total article count = 33

• 18 of the articles are cited at least 18 times
• h-index = 18
g-index & i-10 index
g- index
• Author level metric suggested by Leo Egghe in 2006
• The g-index looks at overall record of citations from higher-cited articles to
lower-cited articles.
• E.g. top article together receive at least g2 citations. g- index of 10 means that
top 10 publications together have been cited 100 times (102)

i-10 Index
• The i10-index is the number of articles with at least 10 citations.
• For instance a researcher with i10-index 3 has 3 articles cited at least 10 times.
Citation
The citation of a publication, especially, other than self citation is one of the most
important indicators of quality.

Non-citation would imply that either work is so abstruse that peers could not
understand and appreciate, which is rare, or of so low quality that peers did not
consider worth citing.

An easy way to know one’s citations is using Google Scholar (

http://scholar.google.co.in/), entering the name of one of the authors followed by
one key word of the title of the publication or the name of journal or a key word of
the title of publication (e.g. sharma op biochem pharmacol).
Contd..
The following permutations and combinations may also be considered for
evaluation of the total research of a scientist, division or institution for recognition,
awards, and academy fellowships:

1. Cumulative Journal Impact Factor (JIF) (Sum of the JIF of all the publications)
2. Cumulative citations (Sum of the citations of all the publications)

Where, N is total number of publications, JIFi represent impact factor of journal

which contains ith publication and Cni denotes the total number of citations of ith
publication.
What is FWCI?

• Field weightage citation index (FWCI) 0.75 1.0 1.50

• Individual author metric (25% less Global mean of (50% more
• It is comparison of total citations cited than FWCI cited than
world world average)
received by the researcher average)
publications to all other similar
publications from same research field
JCR (Journal Citation Report)
• Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) provides you with the transparent,
publisher-neutral data and statistics.

• This helps to make decisions in choosing publishing landscape,

whether you’re submitting your first manuscript or managing a portfolio
of thousands of publications.

• JCR is an annual publication by Clarivate Analytics. It has been

integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of
Science-Core Collections.

• It provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences

and social sciences, including impact factors.
 SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) indicator
• Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) is a measure of the prestige of scholarly
journals.

• SJR scores are computed using network analysis of citations received by

journals.

• SJR is used to compare journals in different disciplines.

• The effect of SJR is to flatten differences between fields i.e. citations in

high cite fields (e.g. neuroscience, pharmacology) are worth than a citation
in a low cite fields (mathematics, humanities).
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact Per Paper)
• It is a field normalised assessment of journal impact.

• SNIP scores are the ratio of a source's average citation count and 'citation potential’.

• The Scopus database is the source of data used to calculate SNIP scores.

• SNIP is calculated as the number of citations given in the present year to

publications in the past three years/ divided by the total number of publications in
the past three years.

• A journal with a SNIP of 1.0 has the median (not mean) number of citations for
journals in that field.

• SNIP only considers for peer reviewed articles, conference papers and reviews.
IPP (Impact Per Publication)
• The IPP, is calculated as the number of citations given in the present
year to publications in the past three years/ divided by the total number
of publications in the past three years.

• IPP is fairly similar to the well-known journal impact factor.

Thank you

Dr. Dinesh Kumar

School of Bioengineerng & Food Technology
Shoolini University
Village Bajhol, Solan (H.P)

+91 9816321855
dineshkumar@shooliniuniversity.com