Thursday 3 April 2014

How to find a journal's impact factor

There have been quite a few queries at the info desk this week about how to find a journal's impact factor. The fastest way to do this is to use the Web of Science database via the DIT Library website. Once in the WoS database click on the Journal Citation Reports tab and search by journal title (not the article title!) to obtain either the Impact factor or the Eigenfactor. Or try the short intro below: