Journal Impact Factor

"Journal Impact Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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A quantitative measure of the frequency on average with which articles in a journal have been cited in a given period of time.

Descriptor ID

D055811

MeSH Number(s)

L01.178.682.099.325.500

L01.453.183.291.500

Concept/Terms

Journal Impact Factor

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Journal Impact Factor".

Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Communications Media [L01.178]
Publications [L01.178.682]
Bibliography as Topic [L01.178.682.099]
Bibliometrics [L01.178.682.099.325]
Journal Impact Factor [L01.178.682.099.325.500]
Information Services [L01.453]
Bibliography as Topic [L01.453.183]
Bibliometrics [L01.453.183.291]
Journal Impact Factor [L01.453.183.291.500]

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publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Journal Impact Factor" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Journal Impact Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 130 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2008	1	3	4
2009	1	4	5
2010	0	2	2
2011	0	3	3
2012	4	0	4
2013	1	7	8
2014	7	3	10
2015	3	4	7
2016	9	2	11
2017	2	5	7
2018	8	13	21
2019	6	10	16
2020	5	6	11
2021	2	6	8
2022	4	4	8
2023	2	3	5

Below are the most recent publications written about "Journal Impact Factor" by people in Profiles.

Press Releases of Drug-Related Randomized Trial Results Prior to Publication in High-Impact Journals: an Observational Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Nov; 38(14):3107-3114.

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Modeling the Adoption of 5760 Clinical Studies Into Practice Across 5 Surgical Specialties. J Surg Res. 2024 Feb; 294:269-278.

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Bibliometric analysis of academic journal recommendations and requirements for surgical and anesthesiologic adverse events reporting. Int J Surg. 2023 May 01; 109(5):1489-1496.

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Tracing the path of 37,050 studies into practice across 18 specialties of the 2.4 million published between 2011 and 2020. Elife. 2023 02 28; 12.

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Impact & Value in Publishing: Would a New Performance Metric Capture Disruptive Science? Adv Biol (Weinh). 2023 02; 7(2):e2300015.

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A Glass Ceiling in Orthopedic Surgery: Publication Trends by Gender. Orthopedics. 2023 Mar-Apr; 46(2):e118-e124.

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Letter to the Editor: Telling the Whole Story: Articles Linking Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Repetitive Head Impacts Have Higher Journal Impact Factors. J Neurotrauma. 2023 02; 40(3-4):410-412.

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Why Do Manuscripts Get Rejected? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 11 01; 150(5):1169-1173.

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Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental: seventy years young and growing. Metabolism. 2022 12; 137:155333.

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Assessing the quality of reporting of studies using Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) data. J Vasc Surg. 2023 01; 77(1):248-255.

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