{"id":181,"date":"2012-07-03T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=181"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:24:33","slug":"journal-impact-factors-now-available-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/journal-impact-factors-now-available-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal impact factors now available for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/Bookcase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-184\" title=\"Bookcase\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/Bookcase-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/Bookcase-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/Bookcase.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mclink.library.mcgill.ca:8331\/V\/E1864GM5UA436PQFTEULSKYY3QEMAY1AQ3BD67YLT5Y1MRE7U7-00168?func=native-link&amp;resource=MTL02132\"><em>Journal Citation Reports<\/em><\/a> has just been updated.\u00a0 It now contains the journal impact factors for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a brief refresher on the journal impact factor.\u00a0 The journal impact factor is published annually in a database called <em>Journal Citation Reports<\/em> and is calculated according to a formula.\u00a0 It is the citations that a journal receives in a given year to articles published in the previous 2-year period (for example, citations that a journal receives in 2011 to articles it published in 2009-2010).\u00a0 This number is then divided by the number of articles published in that previous 2-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Some consider the journal impact factor to be a leading indicator in determining where to submit your manuscript for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/reedinglessons\/2618959705\/\">Reeding Lessons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Citation Reports has just been updated.\u00a0 It now contains the journal impact factors for 2011. The following is a brief refresher on the journal impact factor.\u00a0 The journal impact factor is published annually in a database called Journal Citation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/journal-impact-factors-now-available-for-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-impact-measurements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}