Impact Factor is used by _____.

A. Authors to select the right journal

B. Libraries to make collection development decisions

C. Academic institutions to access academic productivity

D. Publishers to decide the journal price

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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UGC NET Library & Information Science Paper 2 - 13 Mar 2023 (Shift 2) Official Paper

Answer 1

The correct answer is A, B, and C only.

Key Points

The Impact Factor (IF) of a scholarly journal, calculated by Clarivate, indicates the average annual citations of articles from the past two years in that journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
Authors often use various journal impact factor scores as criteria for selecting a journal.
Libraries use IF to make collection development decisions for the acquisition of Journals.
The impact factor (IF) is often used by academic institutions to evaluate the productivity and impact of their researchers and research groups

Additional Information

Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia, originally conceived the idea of the impact factor.
Since 1975, impact factors have been computed annually for journals cited in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
ISI was taken over by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992 and rebranded as Thomson ISI. Later, in 2018, Thomson Reuters sold ISI to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia, resulting in the establishment of a separate entity, Clarivate. Currently, Clarivate is the official publisher of JCR
The web impact factor was developed by P. Ingwerson