Understanding the Impact Factor

Welcome to the Editage Insights Q&A Forum, and thanks for your question.    We have quite a few resources on drafting the scope of study on the forum. We have linked a few of these below. For more, you can search the forum/site and the platform using the relevant keywords.    How do I present the scope of my study?  Can you give an example of the scope of a study?  What is the meaning of scope and delimitations of a study?    Hope these help. All the best for your study!   

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Hi Stan! Thanks for writing in. However, your question is not entirely clear. It would be great if you could add to or modify your question. Until then, if you are looking for help on research questions, here's a resource: How to choose a research question And if you are looking for help on the problem statement, here's a resource: The basics of writing a statement of the problem for your research proposal Hope that helps!

Journals change their name for various reasons, such as a change of scope or a merger with another journal. When they do so, the IF of the new journal changes too, as the new journal is considered a separate publication from the previous one. Technically speaking, the new journal does not have an IF for the first two years of its publication. This is because, as you may know and as the editor shared with you, IF is based on articles published in the journal for the previous two years. Therefore, for the first year, as you have seen, you will not be able to find the new journal in a database such as Web of Science. For the same reason, you will continue to find the previous journal in the database.In the second year though, things change. In the second year, the new journal will have an immediacy index, though still not an IF. Also, the two journals together will have a unified IF for these two years. This is because the new journal has had articles published for only one year and the previous journal has had articles published up until last year. As the new journal still...

I am not sure I completely understand your question. If you mean ‘how do you cite one journal (paper) in another journal,’ here are a couple of articles (based on the various style-guides) that you can refer to:APA Style cheat sheet: How to cite a journal article using APA StyleHow to cite an article: Quick tips on Vancouver and Harvard styles in citationsIf you wish to learn about Q1 and Q2 journals, that is, journal rankings (and therefore, ‘how many papers published in a Q2 journal is equivalent to a paper published in a Q1 journal’), you may refer to this query by another site user: How to understand journal rankings by quartile? If, finally, you simply mean ‘how important is citing one journal (paper) in another journal (paper),’ that of course depends on the relevance of the other paper to your paper. But yes, citing another relevant paper shows that you have done a thorough literature search in your area and are building on previous research, which is the beginning of good science and research. Hope that helps.

IJSRET is also good journal with high impact factor try that 

Without adequate details, I won't be able to answer this query. However, I would suggest that you visit the website of your target journal to find out details about this journal's IF. You could also check Clarivate Analytics' Master Journal List to see if the journal you're looking for is indexed.  Related reading:Q&A: How can I find out the impact factor of my target journal?Which year's impact factor should I use: the current year or that in which my paper was published?

It would be difficult to suggest any journal without reading the manuscript. The quality and contents of the manuscript need to be assessed before suggesting any journal. You may see SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals on http://mjl.clarivate.com/ which will have impact factors or use https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/ from Elsevier and https://journalsuggester.springer.com/ from Springer to select journals. Alternatively, you can also consider using Editage's journal selection service if you want experts to shortlist a few target journals that is a perfect match for your paper in terms of scope, target audience, etc.Related reading:                          How can I select a suitable journal for submitting my manuscript?New free tool to aid journal selection!How to select journals for publishing my research?How can I find a journal for my paper?

It is unethical for authors to submit the same papers to more than one journal at a time. In publishing circles, this is known as simultaneous submission and is frowned upon. Screening every submission requires a lot of time and effort, and if two or more journals process the same paper, the entire cycle is duplicated, thus leading to a waste of academic resources. If you have more than one target journal in mind, consider sending a pre-submission query to the journals. You can send as many pre-submission enquiries as you wish, but you must always submit your paper to one journal at a time. If your paper is rejected by a journal, you can consider sending it to the next one with minor formatting changes to cater to the journal needs. You also wanted to know about the difference between the SJIF and the RJIF. The SJIF refers to "Scientific Journal Impact Factor" and RJIF to "Research Journal Impact Factor." The former is an indexing service for journals while the latter is used to evaluate the prestige of journals. Both products are owned by different companies and could be considered offshoots of the Journal Impact Factor (by Thomson Reuters)....

It is a fact that Thomson Reuters’ JCR Impact Factor is the most reliable and authentic one, and is the only measure that is considered for the purposes of academic evaluation. Other metrics such as the Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF), Universal Impact Factor (UIF), Global Impact Factor (GIF), etc. are products of other indexing companies. Most reputable journals prefer to get indexed in JCR. Thus, as you have rightly said, for most academic purposes such as selection for academic interviews, awarding tenure, etc., SJIF will not be considered.Since you wish to withdraw your paper from this journal, you will have to send an email to the journal to stop further processing of your paper immediately and explain that you wish to withdraw the paper. The journal might not readily agree to the withdrawal as the paper has already been accepted, but you will have to apologize and request them to comply. Note that the withdrawal process will be complete only after you receive the confirmation of withdrawal from the editor; hence, you will have to follow up with them. Do not submit your paper to another journal before you receive confirmation of withdrawal: this can be considered as duplicate submission....