Impact Factor : Research Evaluation and Scholarly Journals

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  • インパクトファクター : 研究評価と学術雑誌
  • インパクト ファクター ケンキュウ ヒョウカ ト ガクジュツ ザッシ

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Currently, there is a great deal of academic evaluation activity and evaluation in Japanese universities. “Impact Factor” came to be misused as one of the evaluation measurements. Originally, Eugene Garfield invented Impact Factor as a type of measurement that reflects the average number of citations per article for each scholarly journal. In some cases, Impact Factors have proved so attractive to many evaluators and researchers that they started applying Impact Factor not only to journal evaluation but also to research activities and researchers. This issue is complicated by the fact that, some journals require that papers be topical and current so researchers are shifting the questions they investigate to accommodate journals with a high-impact factor. In this paper, described the characteristics and history of citation, citation analysis and Impact Factor. We conclude that Impact Factor shows the rank of the scholarly journal in the same field. However, Impact Factor does not describe the research evaluation of the organization and the researcher.

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