Sci-Bytes> Journals Ranked by Impact: Information Science & Library Science
Week of August 15, 2010
Rank | 2009 Impact Factor | Impact 2005-09 | Impact 1981-2009 |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
MIS Quarterly (4.49) |
MIS Quarterly (10.33) |
MIS Quarterly (41.81) |
2 |
J. American Medical Informatics Association (3.97) |
J. American Medical Informatics Association (6.20) |
Knowledge Acquisition (31.57) |
3 |
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (3.64) |
Information Systems Research (5.31) |
Information Systems Research (27.93) |
4 |
Journal of Informetrics (3.38) |
Annual Review of Information Science & Technology (5.09) |
Int. J. of Geographical Information Systems (18.33) |
5 |
Annual Review of Information Science & Technology (2.93) |
Journal of Health Communication (4.17) |
Journal of the American Society for Information
Science (15.92) |
6 |
Int. J. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2.69) |
Information & Management (4.11) |
Annual Review of Information Science & Technology (13.05) |
7 |
J. American Society for Information Sci. &
Technology (2.30) |
Journal of Management Information Systems (3.86) |
Journal of Management Information Systems (11.49) |
8 |
Information & Management (2.28) |
Scientometrics (3.43) |
Int. J. of Computer & Information Sciences (11.21) |
9 |
J. of the Association for Information Systems (2.25) |
Journal of Informetrics (3.24) |
Journal of Documentation (10.84) |
10 |
Scientometrics (2.17) |
J. American Society for Information Sci. &
Technology (3.14) |
Information & Management (9.69) |
The above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand column ranks journals based on their 2009 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of Journal Citations Report®. The 2009 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from Journal Performance Indicators. In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published, producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year period (middle column) and a 29-year period (right-hand column). SOURCE: Journal Citations Report and Journal Performance Indicators.
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