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What is the impact factor of International Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and mental health?
The 2022-2023 Journal’s Impact IF of Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is 4.384, which is just updated in 2023. Psychiatry Research Impact Score 2021-2022. The impact score (IS) 2021 of Psychiatry Research is 9.16, which is computed in 2022 as per its definition. Psychiatry Research IS is increased by a factor of 6.2 and approximate percentage change is 209.46% when compared to preceding year 2020, which shows a rising trend. The American Journal of Psychiatry, the most widely read psychiatric journal in the world, achieved an Impact Factor above 19. The score can be interpreted as an average, where every article that AJP published in the reporting period (i.e., during the years 2019 and 2020) was cited by more than 19 articles in 2021. It is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. The overall rank of Indian Journal of Psychiatry is 7110. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.681. The journal’s impact factor has risen each year, from 1.82 in 2014 to 8.890 in 2021; the 5-year impact factor is 9.620.
What is a good impact factor for a psychology journal?
In most fields, the impact factor of 10 or greater is considered an excellent score while 3 is flagged as good and the average score is less than 1. This is a rule of thumb. Good impact factors In general, the impact factor of 10 or higher is considered remarkable, while 3 is good, and the average score is less than 1. Just as an example, the very prestigious journal Nature had an impact factor of 69.504 in 2021. An impact factor of 10 can be considered excellent – although unreachable in many categories – as in 2020 only 3.65% of the journals had an impact factor of 10 or higher. In most fields of study a JIF of 10 or greater is excellent and in many anything over a JIF of 3 is considered good, but it is essential to remember that JCR impact factors for journals vary markedly across disciplines. Impact factor is commonly used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal within its field and to measure the frequency with which the “average article” in a journal has been cited in a particular time period. Journal which publishes more review articles will get highest IFs. So, a journal with an IF of 2-2.5 would be considered having a higher impact than these journals. A journal with an IF of 5 or above would be considered high-impact, but note that these would be fewer in number. Most journals actually fall in the combined category of an IF of 1-2.