What is journal impact factor?
It is used as the importance of a journal by calculating the number of times the journal's articles have been cited, divided by the total number of scholarly items published by the journal in the last two years. There are different types of "impact factor" from different organizations and databases. Below are the most common:
CiteScore (Scopus): Calculated by dividing the number of citations to documents published in a 4-year period by the number of documents in same 4-year period
Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate): All citations to the journal in the current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings papers) published in the journal
Journal Citation Indicator (Clarivate/Web of Science): Complement. the Journal Impact Factor, the Journal Citation Indicator is field-normalized so it can be easily interpreted and compared across different disciplines
Source: Wiley (2024). Author Services: Metrics Most Commonly Displayed on Wiley Journals, https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/find-a-journal/journal-metrics.html?_gl=1*1ue1f8g*_gcl_au*MTIwMTM3Mjc3OC4xNjkyNzExNTA3Ljg4NzE1MDk5NC4xNjk5ODgzNjU4LjE2OTk4ODM2NTg.
How do I find Impact Factor? The journal home page.
This is an example from Medical Anthropology Quarterly: Journal Metrics.
Citation count shows you who the author of an article cited and who has cited the original article. Why is this important? Scholarship is a conversation between researchers and much of that conversation happens in academic articles. The citations cited are a researcher showing what was done before them and how it impacted their research. It can also allow them to show what other researchers missed or what has changed.
The articles citing the original article, show what research has been done after the article was published and how the research (and the conversation) has changed and progressed.
You can find Citation Count in the database Web of Science.