LibGuides: Research Methods in TESOL: Impact Factor

Information on Impact Factor

At this time the library does not have a subscription to the tool called Journal Citation Reports developed by ISI that calculates the impact factor. Below I have listed some resourse about the impact factor as well as some other tools that are similar to ISI's impact factor. In addition, some publisher post the impact factor for journals on their websites which is another way that you can access those numbers.

Thomson Reuters Impact Factor
Article that gives the definition of the impact factor as well as cautions in use.
Expected Citation Rates, Half-Life, and Impact Ratios
Using the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor
The Agony and the Ecstasy: the history and the meaning of the Journal Impact Factor
Links to a presentation.
Using and misusing the impact factor
Links to an interview with David Tempest, Elsevier.
Journal self-citation in the Journal Citation Reports
The Question of TQ’s low impact factor
Blog post on TQ's impact factor by SURESH CANAGARAJAH on August 17, 2008.
Quality Analysis of Journals in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Egbert, J. (2007), Quality analysis of journals in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. TESOL Quarterly, 41: 157–171. doi: 10.1002/j.1545-7249.2007.tb00044.x

Cited Reference Searching

The link below will walk you through the process of cited reference searching.

Other options websites that identify journal rank

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
"The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains."
ResearchGate
"ResearchGate literature search gives you access to publication metadata of more than 35,000,000 documents". Impact factor is listed for some journals.
Eigenfactor Project
This tool ranks journals using both the Eigenfactor index and an "article influence" index (similar to the "impact factor").
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"The Eigenfactor Project™ is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to use recent advances in network analysis and information theory to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research. We are committed to broadly disseminating our research findings and technological developments, while respecting the confidentiality of the data sources we use. Several aspects of the Eigenfactor Project can be found at Eigenfactor.org (beta version)."