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JAPMA Impact Factor?

Discussion in 'Teaching and Learning' started by Griff, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. Griff

    Griff Moderator


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    Does anyone know the current (or any past) impact factor of JAPMA as suggested by the ISI?

    I also read somewhere that it has the highest value of all podiatric journals - is this true and does anyone have a reference for this?

    Thanks in advance

    Ian
     
  2. Hylton Menz

    Hylton Menz Guest

    Ian,

    The IF for 2007 is calculated as:

    A = the number of times articles published in the journal in 2005-6 were cited in indexed journals during 2007

    B = the number of "citable items" (articles, reviews, proceedings or notes, excluding editorials and letters-to-the-Editor) published in 2005-6

    2007 IF= A/B

    Only two foot-related journal are tracked by Thomson ISI (the company that "owns" the IF), and their 2007 IFs are:

    JAPMA: 0.407
    Foot and Ankle International: 0.956

    The new journal, Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, doesn't yet have an IF as it hasn't been published for a long enough period of time.

    IFs are a seriously flawed measure of journal quality, influence or impact. There have been several papers which discuss this, the best being by Per Seglen in the BMJ (link). The key flaws of the IF are as follows (taken from Seglen):

    Journal impact factors are not statistically representative of individual journal articles

    Journal impact factors correlate poorly with actual citations of individual articles

    Authors use many criteria other than impact when submitting to journals

    Citations to "non-citable" items are erroneously included in the database

    Self citations are not corrected for

    Review articles are heavily cited and inflate the impact factor of journals

    Long articles collect many citations and give high journal impact factors

    Short publication lag allows many short term journal self citations and gives a high journal impact factor

    Citations in the national language of the journal are preferred by the journal's authors

    Selective journal self citation: articles tend to preferentially cite other articles in the same journal

    Coverage of the database is not complete

    Books are not included in the database as a source for citations

    Database has an English language bias

    Database is dominated by American publications

    Journal set in database may vary from year to year

    Impact factor is a function of the number of references per article in the research field

    Research fields with literature that rapidly becomes obsolete are favoured

    Impact factor depends on dynamics (expansion or contraction) of the research field

    Small research fields tend to lack journals with high impact

    Relations between fields (clinical v basic research, for example) strongly determine the journal impact factor

    Citation rate of article determines journal impact, but not vice versa​

    Despite these flaws, researchers will probably still aim for so-called "high-impact" journals until a better system of ranking them is developed.
     
  3. Griff

    Griff Moderator

    Hylton,

    Thats a massive help - I appreciate it

    Ian
     
  4. facfsfapwca

    facfsfapwca Active Member

    I do not know a reference but fully agree with your statement.
    It has been a uniting force as well a source of information and the Podiatrist who does not read it regularly is truly at a disadvantage.
     
  5. facfsfapwca

    facfsfapwca Active Member

    I do not know a reference but fully agree with your statement.
    It has been a uniting force as well a source of information and the Podiatrist who does not read it regularly is truly at a disadvantage.
     
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