1. What is Impact Factor?
Ans: Impact Factor is measure the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals of higher journal impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journal Impact factors are calculated in yearly/half- yearly/ Quarterly/Monthly for those journals that are indexed in Journal Reference Reports (JRR).
2. Is there any fee to submit the Journal for impact factor?
Ans: NO, we provide this service free of cost for the benefit of research community.
3. Why do you give higher Impact Factor for Print Journals?
Ans: Print Journals will have more impact on the minds of readers, though citations may be less. So we give a better ranking for citations of Print journals when compared to online Journals.
4. Our journal is a new Journal, will you give us an impact factor?
Ans: Though Impact factor are calculated annually, we can calculate impact factors for New Journals with minimum of 3 published issues. Please be advised that impact factor may be very less for such evaluations.
5. Is impact factor the ultimate tool of journal evaluation?
Ans: Though there are criticism about Impact factors, at present its the best available tool. We are also trying to develop a rating system.